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young woman's question clean up thailand one of the world's worst social leaders. i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining us losing your life just to cast your ballot that's a very real risk for the people of afghanistan the taliban has issued nonstop threats against saturday's presidential vote and despite a massive security operation voters have every reason to fear war than 170 people were killed or injured at polling stations on the 1st day of last year's parliamentary elections it was the single deadliest day for civilians in 2018 at the polls afghans face conditions that would test anyone's patients waiting for hours in long lines and also doubt in the whole process because of the country's

history of voter fraud taking part in afghanistan's young democracy takes guts. it's scenes like this that the afghan government is desperate to avoid on election day the security plan to protect voters at polling stations was 8 months in the making but violence is just one of the challenges facing the officials organizing the elections 5 years ago allegations of systematic fraud marred the last one abdullah abdullah the man who lost to the current president ashraf ghani then is still his main contender now but. with all our strength we will prevent any kind of fraud in the selection at the last election i said we won't accept any government based on fraud but it happened because afghanistan was facing multiple threats time at the start of withdrawal of foreign troops the rise of islamic states and also the taliban have an upper hand. to fight electoral fraud around

a 100000 election observers will monitor the nearly $5000.00 polling stations across the country but they will be allied to candidates. one 3rd of the afghan defense forces will be on hand but that is still not enough some polling stations will stay shut because the army cannot protect them coaches are worried both about their personal safety and fair elections without that we will participate in the elections and large numbers in iraq as a government that it will provide us with security and she was the terms parents of the election was going to follow was actually the taliban are threatening us all the time to stop us from participating in these elections. i threaten us every day but despite this i believe most people will farts in the elections to defend democracy. protecting both votes as lives and democracy is a tool order for a government in

a country where violent militants control or are active in almost half of the territory. joining us is journalist ali latif he out of kabul people are worried about the violence do you think that it will be bad this weekend as bad as what we saw last year during those parliamentary elections. all indications point that it will be back as we look at from the 1st day of elections until now there have been repeated attacks on candidates on campaign. events and in different sorts of offices and things like that so in the taliban have actually come out in a statement and said that they will target you next month their statement and said that they will target the selections so it will be a big question for people tomorrow what the situation is like whether they will actually come out and vote now if oter turnout is low how will people view the

results of the election. that's exactly the question because we don't know who's actually going to turn now now presidential ticket is assuming that. you know. what all of the evidence is pointing that it may be much. less than that. for instance. number say millions and millions of people turned out. lines across the country were not long and. will once again raise questions about what is going on with the numbers you know this is a major problem with parliamentary elections where people had to wait hours in line or just didn't get a chance to vote at all and yet there were claims that millions of people ended up voting. now this is all happening shortly after a president donald trump scuttled the talks with the taliban how has that played

a part in the elections and how voters will decide. it's actually played a big part in the series of tweets that series of angry tweets about falling off. the candidates themselves very hesitant into overdrive you know. billboards and posters and people going from provinces and you know holding debates and interviews and things like that so that really changed the tone of the election in just something that went from a 203040 percent chance to are essentially 100 percent chance you know now that it's a day before the election a very quickly what are people saying in terms of what they want to see in the economy. the economy is a major major issue because right now we're facing somewhere between 35 to 40 percent unemployment and this is this is a major issue for people people who during the era of the early to mid 2000.

a 1000 maybe even more dollars a month in income are now working as drivers or as day laborers and things like that so it's a major issue for them at the same time that you know the value of the on the the local currency has fallen against us precipitous the. last value in the last 34 years this is a major major star for the people. thank you thank you the election is yet to be determined but what is almost certain is that the country will see more violence it's a danger that hangs over daily life and has for decades and with the resurgence of the taliban and the imminent withdrawal of u.s. troops people fit there just don't feel safe there's anything there. that could be playing out anywhere in the world. is helping her daughter with her homework after school. khadija is a teacher and has high hopes for 8 year old mariam and for her 15 year old son

a solid. but as a parent she has it harder than most she's raising her children in one of the most dangerous places on earth kabul the capital of afghanistan. it's the overall situation in afghanistan is full of destruction. but every 2nd people are living in fear of an explosion and i worry if i step out of the house i may not make it back alive. mozart their. teacher and her family are among millions of afghans living every day with the prospect of being killed in a bombing or suicide attack. the u.n. says nearly 4000 civilians were killed in 2018 that's the highest figure since it began compiling numbers in 2009. violence has already struck at the heart of khadija family. 2017 her brother colleague was

killed in an attack while on his way to work. i want to get out when i went to see his body it was very difficult for me it had a great impact on my children especially my son for months after he would say why was my uncle martyred it wasn't his time he was so young. sergio on. teacher is determined to prevent her life and that of her children from being derailed by the tragedy. she's doing everything she can to lead a normal life and to make the best of the situation in a city convulsed by a tax. law i always say keeping yourself from work from life is wrong we can't just say that things are bad and stay at home to do nothing otherwise your life will be paralyzed. for khadija her job as a teacher at a private school in kabul is one source of strength she say she's inspired by the

children's optimism but she also sees it as a way of making a difference to the future by teaching the next generation about the value of peace . of those and i am still hoping for a life where one day it will be completely different from today. where we won't fear that our children or our families are in danger that's the kind of life i dream of going to learn most of all at the cafe landed in says. that for the children that could be just school and for others across afghanistan that dream still seems a long way off. but. it is friday which means many students around the world are opting out of class and in fighting climate change gretchen berg who kicked off the movement has inspired young people around the planet to take action here's a look at

a teen who is trying to get thailand to clean up its act. this area of bangkok is supposed to be one of the city's greenest but like much of the country it's suffocating under plastic waste. lily is just 12 but she's leading the fight to clean up the city inspired in part by young swedish climate activist greater tune bug. guitar is really important to me because what a symbolizes i see says that. kids can make a different he she wants everybody to do something yellow and she got so many people together. thailand is the world's 6th biggest polluter of the oceans on average each time i uses my plastic bags a day. lily is taking her message to the top she's had several sit ins outside the government house met with business leaders and she spoke at

a major u.n. conference. and trying to enforce a lesson until then see if education and that's. about the environment. she and fellow activists also clean up the city's canals it is hard but i. i like to be positive about it because there's always hope we can always fix something if there's apollo a fix it. clearly is goal is to ban single use plastic bags by 2022. her 1st victory managing to convince a supermarket chain in bangkok to stop using plastic bags one day a week a move lily says she hopes her fellow ties will start to embrace. it with pictures out of china feels like the entire country has mobilized to prepare for the 70th birthday of the people's republic that's next tuesday and will be providing coverage on the day and in the run up thanks for watching next time

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