this is news lawyer from grilling a milestone vote in columbia schools close and counting begins in the first of a parliamentary elections to include the former party of rebel movement as a political party rightwing parties who oppose the trying to sixteen peace deal say they'll amend the treaty if they get the votes also coming up. france's far right for not so an all party cuts its remaining ties with bonds are strong marine defend in a bid to shed its racist image his daughter and party demo reenlist then once dreamed

brown for a party with a new mainstream name. on the plot thickens in the u.k. is russian spy drama traces of a nerve agents were found in the pub visited by surrogate and his daughter shortly after the collapse due to poisoning a week ago. i made a few money welcome to the program in colombia polls have closed in historic legislative elections the first to allow participation all formal fark rebels early results are expected shortly now the former rebels are guaranteed ten seats regardless of the results barque agreed to end its decades long insurrection in return for status as a political party in a controversial twenty sixteen peace deal with president juan manuel santos other parties electoral campaign was marred by protests and it is expected to do badly

now president santos said the election was a crossroads for colombia. this is the first time in half a century where the fork instead of sabotaging the elections they're participating in the elections that's something historic and very important for our democracy. here for more let's now bring in correspondent ophelia rooty who's in bogota ophelia thanks for joining us we've just heard president santos there calling these elections his story but of course we know the inclusion of fog has also been polarizing how all colombians viewing today's election comments are definitely polarized between those who do support the agreement and those who don't obviously everyone wants peace in this country but what they don't agree with is that the fark former rebels are participating in politics before serving time in prison and now there has been

a special jewish jurisdiction created to punish them with social work but that hasn't even started yet and so this election will probably strengthen the center right and the conservative forces that are strongly opposing this peace agreement now conservatives in colombia certainly not happy with their participation and they are hoping to use today's results as leverage to challenge the peace deal with the former rebels why is that. actually this problem goes far back into the history of of colombia the strongest conservative force today is a party that was created by former president about oh what are you it who tried to sign a peace agreement with the fark rebels himself and didn't manage to and today he is president tandja strongest opponent and he's trying to sabotage the peace deal saying that sanchez was too soft and that he gave the rebels too many rights that

they didn't deserve now with a congress with a majority of. that will be probably his party we might see that he will block our his party will block many of those processes of the implementation of the peace deal that still have to go through congress no this doesn't look like it's going to be a good start for the front members who are unlikely to get any more than the ten seats that they're already guaranteed can we expect the bill play any significant role in parliament well fark party has a very bad reputation about eighty percent of colombians do reject them as a political force and so far no other leftist movement or party has supported them or said that they would actually try to make a coalition with them in congress but there is a candidate that has a presidential candidate that has a lot of chances to become the next president and that is because i will present

the role he was but with. major and he has not put officially supported the fark party but he might have to change that if he faces a congress with a majority that is conservative. following that election for us in columbia thank you. the leader of the french far right from last year now marion le pen has proposed changing the party's name to her some more which roughly translates to national rally the name change was proposed at a delegates gathering aimed at rebranding the party i mean a pen was reelected as party leader delegates also cut their last formal ties to her father found a real event abolishing the post of honoring president c. and effectively stripping him of the job as i'll talk to our correspondent in paris lisa lewis it's good to see you lisa so what is marie le pen hoping to achieve by giving her name rather

a new name. what she wants to show that this can really be a fresh start for the party she said in her speech who used to be a preacher's farty now we have become an opposition party and we want to become with this new name a party of government obviously she's also addressing concerns about herself since the debate before the elections last summer where she performed really poorly facing iraq on the current president that word doubts and there are doubts among members of the foreign arsenide or the national rally now that she actually wanted to go through with this that she wanted to become president now in her speech today she said three times our declared target that parties declare a target is to take seize power really to become a governing party and she wants to dissipate these doubts about her own very own personality lisa does this name change also come with a change of political direction or is it a case of the same product in

a new package. it's actually quite interesting she came forward with this new name this new mainstream name and at the same time her speech was very very traditional for nasa nonstate she was talking about her anti immigration stance her stance against islam against immigrants protectionists there was a picture texan his message she was saying our party will protect the poor french against evil globalization and so it was a very traditional speech sound like she was going back to the roots to the roots and actually she was kind of contradicting the earlier message that she wanted to change the party's name speaking of the roots of the party early in the day the party did cut all remaining ties to its foundation really append many. of the delegates voted to abolish the post of president effectively stripping him of his post was that controversial in any way while at the conference it was and eighty

percent of the one thousand five hundred delegates that they did in favor of step is to bring about the of the post or rather voicing the post however we very well know that many people in the party still support him and are still quite quite close to him actually and he's very very far to the far right so when you're good at that and when you look at how marie le pen was speaking what she was saying it was quite clear that she was also trying to address the people in the party now that are close to her father now she's trying to get rid of her father and saying you know we don't really we don't agree with him we are a new party but when you look at to look at what she's actually saying it looks like the potty hasn't really changed that much lisa newest thank you for that update from paris. time now to look at some of the other stories making news around the world conservative billionaire sebastian pinera has been sworn in as president in chile returning to the office for the second time now he replaces socialist

michel basham it has pledged to transform chile into a developed economy we've been eight years. the russian defense ministry says it successfully tested a new hypersonic missile designed to penetrate defense systems it released this footage purportedly showing a test of the high speed missile now the weapon was one of several and billed by president vladimir putin in a recent speech defense analysts have reacted to the announcement with skepticism. japan has been marking the seventh anniversary of a series of disasters that devastated the north east coast and left over eight hundred thousand people dead or missing a massive earthquake triggered a tsunami that led to the worst nuclear disaster since chernobyl prime minister shinzo has pledged ongoing support for the region. but. police in germany are investigating several arson attacks against mosques and

turkish properties across the country over the weekend now it started on friday when fire bombs were thrown at a mosque in the town of laugh and that's in the south and that's in south and germany later turkish immigrants association in the western town of the day and a turkish shop in the town of its a hole was set on fire and in the early hours of sunday a berlin mosque and cultural center were torched nobody was injured in the attacks which authorities say were politically motivated. burned out rooms destroyed equipment. this mosque and turkish cultural center were a home away from home for many in this berlin neighborhood they're outraged by the hate directed at them because this. look the walls the windows the carpet nothing can be saved and it's lost all its value.

the whole mosque has to be renovated and rebuilt. the police report says that witnesses heard a loud clanking sound around two in the morning and saw a group of young men running away then flames started billowing out the windows it took the fire department an hour and a half to put out the blaze too long to protect the building from the flames but there were no injuries police suspect a politically motivated arson attack they refused to rule out far right groups as the culprits but said it could also be a kurdish group or people associated with the turkish opposition there have been no arrests so far enough either not to finish a criminal complaint for aggravated arson was filed and in this day geisha has been launched by state authorities put enough to. the complex belongs to the d t v association of mosques the german branch of the turkish state religious authority has come under criticism in germany for its proximity to the turkish government

this is the asians property has already been the object of many arson attacks now the association is demanding public protection for its mosques it's also demanding wider discussion of discrimination and threats against muslims meanwhile people here refuse to be cowed they still pray despite the attack on the heart of their community. british authorities investigating the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter say they found traces of iran of agent to the pub and restaurants the pay visited shortly before they collapsed. and his daughter remain in critical condition a week after falling ill. police vehicles being taken away for testing they might be contaminated and could become evidence in the spy case that has gripped the picturesque english town. and patrons who enjoyed a pint of this pub are now all extras in the thriller they might have rubbed shoulders with a former russian double agent and been exposed to nerve poison now the hundreds who

passed through the pub and a nearby pizza restaurant are all being told to take precautions. there may be a very small health risk associated with repeated contact with belongings which may have been contaminated by this substance so we're recommending a very very good caution reproach is taken and were biting people to clean the clothes that they were wearing and any possessions that they had with them at the time after a night at the pub former russian spy sergei screwball and his daughter yulia were found unconscious on a park bench poisoned by a nerve agent they're still in a critical condition in seoul's very people are on their guard we've come here to visit for the day and we try not to touch anything but i think they're going to probably an informed everybody a little bit soon because my daughter was actually in the middle of the time. when the incident was supposed to have happened and she was

a bit disappointed because she center just been. actually washington to close the cases similar to the two thousand and six poisoning of another russian defector alexander litvinenko his widow marina says she's shocked it could happen again it was a video said when i realized nothing has changed and him as a russian person asking for political reason for being here if eugene is in this camp you begin to target and you know attacked you keep why did. his people kind of cease in security but finally it's doesn't work any need to talk about. are you able to provide safety and security for people who ask for political asylum in this country her husband's killers remain unknown and she accuses british police of taking too long to investigate this time authorities aren't waiting to start hunting for clues. you're watching the news in berlin do stay tuned for the

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