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thanks for joining us. explosions polls open across the country today. the vote to disrupt the parliamentary elections but thousands of 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 which have had more income flanks and now i've come here to vote for a peasant he should wait 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 that message to the people of afghanistan has been very consistent and 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 ten are. 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 i'm joined in the studio by bus the president as he knew from the doubles of best was love welcome and now the many majestically problems and the security challenges if you've seen all of that aside to off gone. really have faded these elections will deliver the changes they're seeking well barish nobody really expected these elections to be free from fraud or violence people are actually

expecting even more violence from what we have seen today they were only let's say a few casualties and afghans are doing this and they coming out in large numbers because they want to show their resilience they want to show that they want democracy they want representatives who actually are representing them and not just their own interests and that's why we see large high turnout today they want to change they want people to actually represent them but what options do they really have amongst the candidates for instance to change the course of their destiny of course the old parliamentarians have been running against the parliament and those are not the options they want what they want are leaders who are not corrupt there are a there's a large number of these young candidates over sixty percent of the candidates are below the age of forty which is a record number and we have sixteen percent of the women who are candidates so these might be options for them and yes let's see what happens well you know

certainly encouraging numbers and encouraging trends but then it has to be asked and it really be peace without a political settlement with the taliban certainly not because if you want peace with the taliban you need a political solution we know that the taliban control over thirty percent of the territory of the afghan territory there was a b.b.c. study earlier this year that was speaking of fifty percent so if you want the peace with the taliban you have to get them to the discussion table and to find a solution yet when it comes to finding a solution it's the of government that doesn't appear to be at this table it appears that the united states for example is almost taking the lead i mean just last week there was a meeting in qatar and the of government wasn't involved with what's happening there i think the problem is that the taliban do not take the afghan government serious their. talking about a puppet government and the only party they want to talk is the us and that's why there wasn't any real progress until yet right interceptor keep our eyes

off this one other presidency me from the and as i just want to i mean. duck you says it will not allow a coverup of the killing of the journalist jamal khashoggi saudi arabia has now admitted that he died in its tumble consulate after a fist fight the saudis denied for more than two weeks that he was dead but turkey says it holds incriminating evidence about the killing including audio and video recordings now seven western officials and media groups are calling for justice for the dissident journalist this is a moment that jamal khashoggi and at the saudi consulate in istanbul never to be seen again shocked his disappearance sparked an international outcry over and over saudi arabia said he'd left the building alive. weeks late they conceded that's false the critical journalist died at their hands. the first investigation of prosecutors regarding the disappearance of the citizen jamal khashoggi shows

a discussion between him and the people he met while he was at the saudi concert in istanbul led to an argument and crow cut choccy which caused his death. made. the statement is a break from two weeks of silence and denial from riyadh even the incriminating evidence mounted. days after the end at the consulate turkish officials leaked information that the journalist was killed inside the building. next they released these images purportedly showing a hit squad arriving in istanbul airport shortly before and at the consulate. turkish officials also claimed to have audio recordings proving that shock she was tortured and his body dismembered. even after saudi arabia's latest concessions the journalist body still hasn't been found and it is unclear who will discuss short

she's killing. we want justice for gemma. we want. mortars to be punished although ever we want punishment not only for the only eighteen men but also for the alternative that gave the orders saudi arabia now claims it has responded to the killing by sucking senior officials including general ahmed siri a close confidant of mohammed. raising yet more questions about the role of saudi arabia's de facto ruler in the death of the dissident journalist. now to some of the other stories making news around the world hundreds of migrants faced off against riot police on a bridge crossing on the mexican got a modern border some people jumped into the water along the border to escape they are part of a group of thousands who set off from honduras last week and a heading towards the united states the keep up tanzanian billionaire mama do j.

has been released and he safely back at home he was seized ten days ago by unidentified gunmen in the city of dallas forty three year old is africa's youngest billionaire with the reported fortune a one point five billion dollars it is not clear whether a ransom was paid we can go founder julian assange 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 do terms of asylum require him to pay for medical bills phone calls and to clean up after his pet cat. protesters calling for a referendum on the final brigs of london for what organizers said would be the biggest loudest and most important demonstration of its current prime minister has already ruled out such a referendum. to move the e.u. on the twenty ninth of march next year. in taiwan thousands of people have demonstrated to call for independence from chinese control the rally in taipei is

a clear challenge to the island's already told government it's the first large scale protest calling for an outright independence vote since taiwan first became a democracy more than twenty years ago. taiwanese self-governed that 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. i 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 get out and this is my country this is my nation we need a referendum on independence we're taiwanese it's very simple these protesters are not satisfied 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 taiwanese the 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. the baby columbus spacecraft has lifted off from the european space agency's board in french this is the e.s.a. is new mission to explore the planet. launched just a few hours ago the craft is going to win satellites bonnie european and one japanese it believes them into orbit around the smallest of the rocky planets there they will spend at least a year mapping and analyzing the sun's closest planetary neighbor. baby colombo is 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 end to orbit around mercury in december two thousand and twenty five when it will release its two research satellites this is new 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 star 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 mickey's magnetic field to try to solve some of these puzzles meanwhile its 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 the planets. at the german aerospace center researches 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 baby colombo's cameras and spectrometers and finally reveal mercury secrets yeah feely.

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. has at least enough fuel to keep it going for one year but scientists hope it could last. a quick bit of football news now one of europe's biggest football stadium is about to get even bigger. no it will start in the postseason next. video the transformation will actually look like the work will increase the stadiums capacity to one hundred five thousand dollar roof all seats in the stadium the project will cost more than four hundred million dollars

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