this is new news live from berlin as parliamentary polls open a battle between tara and hope is playing out of voting stations across afghanistan multiple explosions and casualties have already been reported in kabul photos risking their lives to cost that balance we'll get the latest from kabul also coming up. saudi arabia admits jamal khashoggi is dead after two weeks of denials saudi state t.v. said the dissident journalist was killed in a fifth fight inside its stumble consulate but will western allies of the saudi

government finds the explanation convincing. and last off too much yuri a joint european and japanese spacecraft has successfully launched as is and is on its way to explore all solar systems and smallest and least understood. i'm on you tube as mckinnon thanks so much for joining us. there are reports of multiple casualties off to afghanistan's capital kabul was rocked by several explosions polls opened across the country today off two years of delay the taliban has vowed to disrupt the parliamentary elections but thousands of afghans a standing in defiance of those threats and facing the security related chaos so that they can vote. these people are risking their lives to vote the threat of

violence from the taliban and so-called islamic state hangs over every polling station almost nine million people are registered in the poll for the lower house of parliament ordinary afghans have expressed cautious hope. but i hope that it's their right to vote today i came out here and voted for my favorite candidate and did my part for the future of afghanistan. on the phone to have a chance which company more income flanks and though i've come here to avoid for paris and he should want to bring security to the country i asked people to come and vote for prosperity in afghanistan not. it's a major step that these elections are happening at all they were originally scheduled to be held three years ago but ongoing instability has forced many delays a string of ten candidates have been assassinated then just this past week an

attack in kandahar province killed the chief of police and wounded the provincial governor leading to further delays in the province. a senior american general avoided injury in the attack he encouraged afghans not to be discouraged. i said to the people of afghanistan has been very consistent you have every right to be proud of your security forces and the preparations that made for this election despite this unfortunate event tragic event down to our. if turnout is strong it shows that the country indeed has functioning institutions bolstering the government's legitimacy in the eyes of the people but the actual electoral results won't be known for several weeks. for more on this let's bring in to the political analyst based in kabul thomas afghans have waited three is for these elections to happen are they going to see the fair and free elections that

they're hoping for. no they're not seeing that and also have to say that there was no talk about free and fair elections i mean the threshold outweigh acceptable ones and i'm actually not sure that their sort has been crossed today. now there are reports of blossom casualties across the country is the threat of terror stopping voters from costing the ballots are they being intimidated yes it is and that's mainly the case in the rule areas if you have only very sketchy reports from them we also have reports from can do city in the north which is one of the biggest cities of the country with a rocket and mortar shelling although thirty people injured there apparently two mortar grenades hit the polling center so people were scared although of course they're staying at home and we also have to say that already before the election almost one third of all planned polling centers planned by the independent election commission where rule to to remain closed because security forces are not able to

secure them and today by noon we had an official figures that not more than three thousand of the remaining four thousand centers where open now afghan fighters one tibet's a future that very clear in what what they want but one of the key challenges that afghanistan has to overcome to deliver this. it's very clear and the main thing is the war but also the diaster economic situation which is only partly linked to the war of course the war which is ongoing in different stages for over forty years has destroyed a lot of interest richer as well to destroy the rest of society. so there's a lot of mistrust among people but the war which is on a level which we have never seen before in the last seventeen years at least after the overthrow of the taleban both when it comes to military casualties civilian casualties people displaced from their homes and also from the part of the church

which is controlled by the taliban that shows that there's a big problem but there was a little opening earlier this year with talks directly between us and taliban representatives and there are a lot of people you know will cross that the political solution to the process can be found but even those people are not really a hundred percent sure they want that because the majority of the people don't want to talk about back in power whether that's in the kind of a coalition or alone to muster take in kabul thanks so much for your analysis you know. that more than two weeks after the dissident journalist jamal khashoggi was seen for the last time in istanbul saudi arabia has now admitted that he was killed inside that consulate in the turkish capital saudi state t.v. says a preliminary investigation revealed that an argument broke out between the washington post journalist and a group of men inside the consulate it claims he was accidentally strangled during

a brawl saudi authorities say they've arrested eighteen people over the case and the saudi king has also sacked several top officials and called for reform of the kingdom's intelligence agency. dorian jones in istanbul why saudi arabia has only now admitted its involvement in custody is killing that's over two weeks after he went missing. well that is a question and in fact there is some speculation possibly that turkey was preparing to release what they claim was a video that actually showed the last minutes of the death of the saudi journalist that would have totally confirm all of their or their allegations of the last week or so but i think that the probably the real explanation is that there's been this constant drip drip drip by leaks coming from the turkish investigation which has driven the growing international outcry and the growing diplomatic pressure on riyadh i think there were those in riyadh that were hoping that this crisis

eventual would start to die down of the way turkey has handled this in managing this and disseminating information has in fact although this crisis has continued to escalate and it's reached a point i think where washington possibly has intervened and said reality you have to change your story you have to be seen to be acting. hundreds of migrants have faced off against riot police on a bridge crossing the mexican guatemalan border river they're part of a group of thousands who set off from hunter us last weekend heading towards the united states some people jumped into the river below to escape others wanted to be allowed to enter mexico and authorities eventually left a small number across what tamala says that's one juror in president one hole under a nun does will visit the country on saturday to help those on jurors who want to return home. now the betty colombo spacecraft has lifted off from the european space agency's port in french guyana this is the essays new

mission to explore the planet cheery. everybody's happy to go to. launch just a few hours ago the crofters carrying twins satellites one european and one japanese it will release them into orbit around the smallest of the rocky planets that they'll spend at least a year nothing and analyzing the sun's closest planetary neighbor. scientists hope it will help them learn more about the conditions in the center of the solar system more than four billion years ago b.p. columbia has one of the european space agency's most complex missions. the probe will fly by the earth venus and mercury a total of nine times using the gravity of those planets to decelerate and avoid being drawn to its doom by the sun's huge gravitational pull it will finally enter

all bit around mercury in december two thousand and twenty five when it will release its two research satellites and it's a complicated trajectory we have to follow to get to mercury it's not actually getting there that's difficult but it is very difficult to maneuver into orbit that's what makes this flight path complicated and that has to do with the fact that mercury is so close to the sun. a simple straight flight path would send the craft hurtling directly into the sun our home stars a huge mass would make entering orbit around mercury impossible. so close to the sun temperatures are extreme baby colombo will have to withstand conditions of up to four hundred fifty degrees celsius but parts of the planet that never see the sun can be as cold as minus one hundred eighty degrees part of baby colombo's mission is to find out what the planet is made of and how it might have formed that will give scientists a much better idea of the conditions close to the sun four and

a half billion years ago when our solar system was taking shape. one of the two satellites on the twin mission will measure mercury's magnetic field to try to solve some of these puzzles meanwhile it sibling satellite will examine mercury's rocky surface taken together all this information will give scientists new insights into the birth of our solar systems in a planet's. at the german aerospace center research as heat to rest real rocks to the kind of temperatures reached on mercury they want to find out how rocks behave under such extreme conditions the results will help them interpret the findings harvested from p.p. colombo's cameras and spectrometers and finally reveal mercury secrets yeah. we've had a lot of theories and models for the origin of mercury. but now we know that none of them really work. so now we have an almost clean slate

a blank page and we hope to answer all those questions. colombo has at least enough fuel to keep it going for one year but scientists hope it could last a lot longer than that. some football news now and ahead of today's bundesliga match with all spoke by an munich have held an extraordinary press conference on friday the german champions struck have struggled in recent weeks and the club's bosses are rounded on the media for what they feel is overly harsh criticism but i just came before we will scrutinize everything and that we will no longer accept disrespectful reporting back to you. it's not acceptable learn how to negative the reporting has been about our players but it's outrageous and disrespectful but i was appalled and our team doesn't deserve it was that it meant to finish the dean see murden future bust of him how

good you might have a lot of fun finally seeing byron munich not on top of the table. suzy and i've even heard you can but from today on we will not accept this demeaning and sneering reporting about our club track to show. now a match against all spike later today is a must win game for buy and if they want to avoid even more criticism and new coach nick desperately needs a victory as he struggles to live up to by and lofty expectations. his side haven't won in four games in all competitions it's unclear whether the buyer bosses even told their coach they were planning to attack the media over its critical coverage of the team kovach held his press conference before byers executives and he said he hadn't seen any negative coverage at all.

as i didn't read anything really i'm in a really good place i don't know what was written good or bad but i assume it was all good when all was well which is the international break didn't bring any real chance for biron to regroup only a few players stated munich then kovach says he's not changing tactics despite poor results and it's not going to question everything and turn things around. we did some good things early and also in the last few games we just need a bit of luck you know you need to in life and in sports as well and if we have that again we'll be successful overeaten said always. been a difficult year wolfsburg are up next for buyers in their run is even worse than byron's brutal nobody is team hasn't one in five games but they still fancy their chances against by. his into shot dead beats a ball so we're looking forward to the game just like we look forward so all our

games. buyers are not is feared as they have been in recent years nico botched needs to change things fast or he could be the next one to suffer the wrath of the byron bosses. news live from berlin more at the top of the hour thanks so much for watching. legal legal. legal

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