best is to give you news coming to you live from berlin the coming boat ians voce and elections condemned as an undemocratic shout after his crackdown on dissent the country strongman ruler is expected to continue his long grip on power opposition groups say that the elections were in a just a mess will go to come go to capitol for the latest also coming up. houses of migrants are rivals to see staying over take italy as the main landing place for those arriving to europe by sea we'll take you to a new flashpoint for my current crossings to the continents. and rainbow

flags fly here in britain and with hundreds of thousands turning out for one of europe's biggest prize gatherings brits for strategic. amounted to a welcome to the program focusing has ended income bodi of following elections today and the winner is all but a foregone conclusion combo dns trickles into voting stations in a poll that human rights groups have labeled a farce prime minister hun sen is expected to sail to victory extended his thirty three year grip on power his opponents called for a boy cost after the country's course dissolved the main opposition party leaving no real challenger the world's longest serving prime minister has become increasingly heavy handed 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. although he's. prepared to do anything. to cling to power so he hasn't date to suppress. 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 a shirt of his seventh straight term as prime minister further securing his name in the history books. our correspondent and heartache is in cambodia its capital phnom penh for more on the story and the polls have now close in cambodia as election and hundreds and looks set to win yet another term so what does this mean for cambodia. well it 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 around is there anybody really who can speak. yeah that's true 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 calming 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 critics say that is restricting human and civil rights in cambodia and he's also cracked down on media are we seeing cambodia drifting towards a talker. 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 then you know that means something for the people and the people they're not they're afraid to speak out if you go around and you ask people no one wants to speak openly because they're afraid of repercussions if they say they support the opposition so taking all that together i think it's fair to say

that with these elections has moved one major step further or closer to becoming an autocratic country in high stake in cambodia as capital phnom penh thank you for. an earthquake has hit the indonesian island of them block officials say killed fourteen people and injured fourteen 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 sent people fleeing into the streets several buildings were damaged in the area which is also popular with tourists officials have not issued any tsunami warning there to 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 more than one hundred fifty flights were canceled and train services were also disrupt as in western japan has of residents had to leave their homes. israel has released palestinian teenager i had to tell me

me from prison the seventeen year old was jailed for a small ends on longside her mother for slapping 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. of nicaraguans have marched through the capital in support of the roman catholic church and its bishops president ortega has accused the church of aiding an attempted coup against him protesters chanted slogans and supporters of the bishops and called for take its resignation. well there's been a dramatic decline in the number of undocumented migrants reaching europe this year overall fifty five thousand people have arrived which is half the figure for the same period in twenty seventeen but one roof's has seen a surge in illegal crossings with spain overtaking italy as the main landing points

over f.a.'s unlike rants have been rescued crossing from morocco since friday. pursued by a police post a pakistani from morocco lands on a spanish beach. a group of migrants jump and disappear into the surrounding do. 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 with my your. imagery it's all ten 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 as they reckon to sell importers or would he leave their homes because their borders social and economic forces make them take the hard decision to leave their families behind and the reason is a little. earlier this week hundreds of migrants celebrate after reaching european soil and so you to. a wrist injury and attack security forces to storm a heavily fortified six metre high border fence it's enough. incident highlighting the pressures facing the spanish authorities reception centers are overflowing and peasants more undocumented migrants are waiting to attempt a crossing the e.u. already works with morocco to prevent illegal border entries as additional measures now look inevitable we have more they bring you. in this again will now put

pressure on the european union to give morocco more resources to stop the migrants move you better do that and with that went into the meeting and 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 analysis here as. authorities are readying new reception centers to accommodate more arrivals. abreast of color and leisure hip berlin this weekend with hundreds of thousands turning here for the city's annual gay pride parade known as christmas tree day this year it was the forty of time that the event has been held in the city and it's one of europe's biggest pride events. burn geyser has been at almost every christopher street day parade he's one of the pioneers of the movement. there always are selected as i was

the first time excited 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 of the positive reactions and that was very relieving for me that it gave me courage if. 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 and to gay insults are still widespread in german schools. doesn't have 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 got in the show you our public people should not hide why you know this is about freedom and not having to hide anymore you can

be yourself. crime statistics hell of a show that being yourself can be dangerous in berlin alone there were three hundred twenty full confirmed homophobic attacks last year young reported number will be significantly higher the current guys are and tens of thousands of others the fight for justice continues. karen thomas has all but sealed victory in the tour de france the well cyclist held on to the yellow jersey with a strong performance in saturday's time trial and now he just has to make us to the finish line in today's final stage to win the overall race. the moment karen 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 four. since a. time trial world champion tom 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 tour de 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 road cycling's most prestigious title. in rather formula one britain's lewis hamilton will start today's hungary in grand prix in pole position after finishing ahead of his mercedes team makes terry both tass in qualify hamilton took advantage of wet conditions the hungering go to speed home in just over one minister a five second victory puts him in

a commanding position for sunday's main event as he looks to extend his seventeen point lead. in the summer i would have title of life us about in fact i will start in fourth. that's it for me for now you're watching news thanks for joining us. the touch. i. cannot go out and they will not succeed in dividing us about not succeeding taking the people off the streets because we're tired of this dictatorship. taking the stand global news that matters. made from minds. to fasten your seat belts. cuts.