this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin democracy under pressure in cambodia following national elections the polls have now closed down the country's strongman ruler is expected to hold on to power but opposition groups say that the elections were shouting we'll go live to come boetius capital for the laces. townsend's of migrant arrival see spain overtake initially as the main landing point for the ride into europe by sea the take it to a new flashpoint for migrant crossings to the cops lands. and here in berlin hasn't

have turned to age for one of europe's biggest gay pride gatherings christopher street day. i mounted on a welcome to the program polls are now closed in cambodia following elections today and the winner is all but a foregone conclusion of audience trickles into voting stations in a poll that human rights groups have labeled a farce prime minister hun sen is expected to sales a victory extending his thirty three year grip on power his opponents called for a boycott after the country's courts dissolved the main opposition party leaving no real challenger while the world's longest serving prime minister has become increasingly heavy handed as restricting human and civil rights income badia here's more. the votes have not been counted but no one is holding their breath.

and there is little doubt that this man will stay in power can send the prime minister remains firmly at the head of the ruling cambodian people's party for c.p.p. he's been in power for thirty three years making him the world's longest serving national leader he has survived the khmer rouge pushed the country's royalty aside and outlawed the rival c.n.r. p. party his only viable competitor because of that and a crackdown on media critics call the election a sham. he's. prepared to do anything. to cling to power so he doesn't hesitate to suppress. writes. this is cambodia six election since one thousand nine hundred three after decades of war and who has made it very clear that he wants

a big turnout. a poor showing could be seen as support for the band the opposition party. anyone who opposes elections destroys the nation and democracy and should not be forgiven the was. as polls close in cambodia consensus seems assured of his seventh straight term as prime minister further securing his name in the history books. our correspondent and heartache is incumbent is capital phnom penh for more on the story and the polls have no close in cambodia's election and homes and looks set to win yet another term so what does this mean for cambodia. means that the ruling party c.p.p. and the prime minister. can further tighten their already pretty tight grip on

power that he can continue to work on his successor and he's already started doing that building up his sons or one of his sons as as his successor and it also means that the hopes that many in the international community had for cambodia after that . back in the seventy's that the country was going to slowly but eventually transition to a democratic system that that those hopes now seem further away from reality than ever. any at any point in the last decades and. so he looks set to cement his grip on power there now in the last election there was a viable opposition so what happened this time rent is there anybody really who can speak. through and in the last election there was the c n r p that we heard of in the report and they won some forty percent of the vote and then again in the commune of the elections last year

they had a similar result so it seems that that was a bit too strong for the government so they had they had that party they had that party banned so there are nineteen other parties apart from the ruling party in this election but none of them is really considered to be a major threat many of them have connections to the government the ones that are independent are also pretty small and insignificant many of them just formed a few months ago so there's no real credible challenger or no party that can challenge the power of the ruling party so it seems pretty clear who's going to win this race. and regime critics say that one cent is restricting human and civil rights in cambodia and he's also cracked down on media are we seeing cambodia drifting towards autocracy. you know well if you take all those if you take all that evidence together and the opposition party to solve

a crackdown on media you mentioned it many a dozen radio stations were shut down last year independent newspapers were shut down as well or sold to people who have strong connections to the ruling party if you look at the fact that there's a lot of reports of voter intimidation ahead of these elections if you consider that the ruling party has you know reaches down to the very to the local level a lot of the communal authorities local authorities belong to the ruling party and they wield a lot of power over the people they're the ones who sign your marriage certificates they're the ones who decide who gets government money and if they tell you that you have to go vote and repercussions if they say they support the opposition so taking all that together i think it's fair to say that with these elections moved one major step further or closer to becoming autocratic country in high stake in cambodia is capital phnom penh thank you for the us and earthquake has hit

the indonesian island of lombok officials say killed at least ten people and injured forty more the six point four magnitude quake struck the northern part of the island in the early morning it reportedly lasted for just seconds and ten people fleeing into the streets several buildings were damaged and officials have not issued any tsunami warnings. and for a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a powerful typhoon has hit japan bringing heavy rains and winds of up to one hundred eighty kilometers per hour holding the consolation of over one hundred fifty flights of train services were also described as in western japan patients of residents had to leave their homes. israel has raised palestinian teenager i had to me from prison the seventeen year old was jailed for eight months alongside her mother for stopping and kicking two israeli soldiers near her home in the west bank israel says she's being used by her family for political reasons for palestinians she's become a symbol of resistance. people in mali are set to vote in the presidential election

today and expected to be a tight race there between incumbent abraham backer and kate a who is seeking a second five year term the opposition counters some say the poll comes as the country battles a wave of ethnic violence and jihad ism. there's been a dramatic decline in the number of undocumented migrants reaching europe this year overall fifty thought five days and people have arrived at half the figure for the same period in two hundred seventeen but one race has seen a surge in illegal crossings with spain overtaking italy as the main landing point over atheism migrants have been rescued crossing from rockall since friday. pursued by a police post apart from morocco lands on a spanish beach. a group of migrants jumped and disappear into the surrounding dean's. the scenes were captured on friday off the straits of gibraltar the narrowest body of water separating north africa and spain it's become

a key migrant range more than twenty one peasant people have made the crossing so far this year that's three times more than in twenty seventeen. about seven hundred people are reaching our country daily but mainly in and elisia the surge is concentrated in southern spain the pressure is not as noticeable in madrid we only have forty arrivals daily but it's getting more and more. your. image or its all time migrants look for a better future two years ago a rona from senegal reached the spanish enclave of so utor the e.u.'s only land border with north africa now he has a work permit under job and asylum corridors there were people don't leave their homes because their doors social and economic forces make them take the hard decision to leave their families behind and the reason is. earlier this week

hundreds of migrants celebrate after reaching european soil and see you to. day wrist injury and attack security forces to storm a heavily fortified six metre high border fence it's another incident highlighting the pressures facing the spanish authorities reception centers are overflowing and peasants more undocumented migrants are waiting to attend to crossing the e.u. already works with morocco to prevent illegal border entries as additional measures now look inevitable we have no they bring you. in the same will now put pressure on the european union to give morocco more resources to stop the migrants move you better do that and we think the immuno. towns in southern spain are already sounding the alarm saying they fear being left alone to cope but they also want to be prepared like here enough to see us. authorities are readying new reception

centers to accommodate more arrivals. here and hasn't gathered for the city's annual christopher street day parade is here with the fortieth time the event has been held in the city it's one of europe's biggest gay pride events but the main party at the brandenburg gate ended early this year organizers called off the event due to storm warnings in the german capital. ben guys it has been at almost every christopher street day parade he's one of the pioneers of the movement. always is excited as i was the first time excitement doesn't stop me. he helped organize the first event held in one nine hundred seventy nine when nearly five hundred people in west berlin demonstrated for equal rights at the same time public opinion was hostile towards them. but then i found that we got some positive reactions and that was very relieving for me that he gave me courage. to come up christopher street day is not just

a street party it's also political the fight for equal rights and acceptance in germany is far from over campaigners what the constitution amended to protect against discrimination based on sexual identity there also calls for better education anti gay insults are still widespread in gym schools. and have ever we're not there yet there's still a lot of injustice we have to deal with and i think this is a wonderful way of doing that. it's going to develop a show you our public people should not hide. this is about freedom of not having to hide anymore you can be yourself signs of the. crime statistics however show that being yourself can be dangerous in berlin alone there were three hundred twenty four confirmed homophobic attacks last year the unreported number will be significantly higher for burnt geyser and tens of thousands of others the fight for justice continues. to.

grow and thomas has all but sealed victory in the tour de france the hour cyclist held on to the yellow jersey with a strong performance at saturday's time trial and now he just has to make us across the finish line and today's final stage to win the overall race. the moment go right thomas has dreamed of the tour de france title is as good as his thomas produced another excellent display in the penultimate stage he finished the time trial in third place and crucially retained a lead of almost two minutes in the general classification. to do on the biggest stage of all. over three weeks. since a. time trial world champion song to milan won the stage an outcome that keeps the dutchman in second place overall. he finished narrowly ahead of chris froome the four time sort of france champion has had a difficult few weeks but will at least end up on the podium in paris but barring

a disaster it's his team sky colleague thomas who will take his crown as the holder of rights cycling's most prestigious title. well not surprisingly they have been celebrations and caroline thomas is hometown in the west capital of cardiff city hall and parliament where less of a yellow the color of the need is jersey to mark the first ever win by a welsh rider in cycling's biggest race the festivities will no doubt continue as the tour procession heads into paris nation's auctioneer. and just a reminder of the top story that we're following for you can vote in have been voting today in a national elections in which incumbent strongman prime minister hun sen is expected to return to power human rights groups have criticized a crackdown on dissent on the opposition saying that the election was a sham. that's it for now you are watching daily news coming tonight from britain

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