this is d.w. news live from berlin as parliamentary polls open in afghanistan of a battle between tara and home is playing out of voting stations across the country multiple explosions and casualties have already been reported in kabul photos all risking their lives to cause that balance we'll get the latest from the afghan capital. also coming up saudi arabia admits jamal khashoggi instead off to two weeks of denial saudi state t.v. said the dissident journalist was killed in a fistfight inside its stumble consulate but will western allies of the saudi

government find their explanation convincing. and in the been mislead the big guns gone are experiencing an unfamiliar run of boxing coach nico coach is struggling in his new role well the club's boxes have attached the media count the champions steady the ship the game's full spoke later today we'll take a look. at the morning. i'm on your trip as mackinnon 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 standing

in defiance of those threats and facing the security related chaos to 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 i had. a chance when it happened war in conflicts and now i've come here to avoid for person who should want to bring security to the country i ask people to come and fight 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. present to the people of afghanistan is very consistent everyone 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 take he's a political analyst based in kabul tell us 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 halfway acceptable ones and i'm actually not sure where the threshold has been crossed today now there are reports of blossom casualties across the country is the threat of terror stopping by tis from costing the ballots are they being intimidated yes it is and that's mainly the case in the ruling areas we have only very sketchy reports from there 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 over 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 when when 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 that the main thing is the war but also the diasur economic situation which is only partly linked to the war because the war which is ongoing in different stages for over forty years has destroyed a lot of infrastructure has also destroyed the worth of society and 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 charity 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 the u.s. 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 that even those people are not really a hundred percent sure they want that because soon 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're most welcome well then two weeks off to the dissident journalist should j. was seen for the first time last time in istanbul scuse me saudia arabia has admitted he was killed inside the 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 the saudi authorities say they've arrested eighteen people over the case

the saudi king has also sucked several top officials and called for reform of the kingdom's intelligence agency i also dorian jones in istanbul wife saudi arabia has only now admitted its involvement in question of his killing over two weeks after he went missing. well that is a question in fact there is some speculation possibly that he was preparing to release what they claim was a video that i showed the last minutes of the death of the saudi journalist that would have totally confirmed all of there are there are 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 this 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 of going to be would start to die down the way turkey has handled this in managing the disseminating information has in fact for this crisis has continued to escalate and

it's reached the point i think where washington possibly has intervened in reality you have to turn to a story you have to be seen to be acting. ok let's have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world now. hundreds of migrants have faced off against riot police on a bridge crossing the mexican guatemalan border some people jumped into the water along the border to escape part of a group of thousands who set off from ungenerous last weekend and i'm making their way making their way towards the united states macedonia's parliament has voted in favor of changing the country's name resolving a decades long dispute with greece lawmakers backs a proposal to amend the constitution despite fierce opposition from conservatives the procedure will see the country renamed the republic of north macedonia. the kidnapped tanzanian billionaire mohammed do g.

has been released and is safely back home it was seized ten days ago by unidentified gunmen in the city of daraa salaam forty three year old d.g. is africa's youngest billionaire with a reported fortune of one and a half billion dollars it's not clear whether a ransom was paid. and julian a songe wiki leaks co-founder is launching a legal action against the ecuadorian government accusing it of violating his fundamental rights and freedoms he's been living in the ecuadorian embassy in london since twenty twelve but new terms of asylum now require him to pay for medical bills phone calls and to clean up after his pet kept. now in taiwan taiwan thousands of people have demonstrated to call for independence from china the rally in taipei is a clear challenge to the island's already embattled government it's the first large scale protest calling for an outright independence vote since taiwan first became

a democracy well and twenty years ago. taiwanese so fab and the china considers the island as part of its territory in the past year china has ramped up pressure on taiwan conducting air and sea military exercises around the island. wonder but we think there should be a referendum to make taiwan a normal country. we need to come here together as one nation to really project one voice. school you're trying to get out and this is my country this is my nation we need a referendum on independence we're taiwanese that's it it's very simple these protesters are north that is by with the current government they asked for a tougher stance on china however according to a recent poll there are less than forty percent of tar winnie's the porting independence it seems china's economic and military pressure on taiwan has its effect. protesters calling for

a referendum face another obstacle currently voting on topics relating to taiwan's name and constitution illegally by. some football news now and ahead of today's bundesliga match with both spoke by an munich held an extraordinary press conference on friday the german champions have struggled in recent weeks on the club's books is rounded on the media for what they feel is overly harsh criticism and is he before we will scrutinize everything so we will no longer accept disrespectful reporting back to you. a skit it's unacceptable how negative the reporting has been about our players it's outrageous and disrespectful but i was appalled and our team doesn't deserve it was that it meant to finish the didn't see moving future past on how you might have a lot of fun finally seeing byron munich not on top of the table to see and i've

heard you can but from today on we will not accept this demeaning and sneering reporting about our club track to ship. and now the match against both folk later today is a must win game for buy and if they want to avoid even more pressure this isn't a new coach that desperately needs a victory as he struggles to live up to plans lofty expectations meet his side having one 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 teen. hill his press conference before buyers executives 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 says he's not changing tactics despite poor results and it's niche we're 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 need to in life and in sports as well and if we have that again we'll be successful and it's not always. then the difficulty and wolfsburg are of next for buyers in their run is even worse than buyers brutal nobody is team has in one in five games but they still fancy their chances against by. his intuition are dead beats a bow so we're looking forward to the game just like we look forward to all our games in my mind are not is feared as they have been in recent years nico koba it's nice to change things fast or he could be the next one to suffer the wrath of the

byron bosses. abundantly the weekend kicked off on friday and it was back in style off to the international break as and at frankfurt demolished a slid off seven to one on friday the style of the match with was luke a jovovich who scored a whopping five goals he's the first frank player ever to complete the feat and abundantly game. and one of the world's most iconic football stadiums is to undergo a major facelift changes to barcelona as camp new will start in the postseason next summer the spanish giants revealed in this video simulation what the transformation will look like the work will increase the stadiums capacity to one hundred five thousand and install a roof that covers all seats in the stadium the project will cost more than four hundred million dollars and is expected to be completed by twenty twenty two.

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