in the senegalese capital dhaka next. i thought for a short break here al jazeera when we come back votes are being counted in a close race for the presidency in nigeria. and what's behind saudi arabia's appointment of a woman as an ambassador for the very first time on that status. and now the rain is just about gone now from china is this cloud his drifting across taiwan behind it a bit of a gap there of the stuff coming out of the tibetan plateau will be a bit of snow for the higher ground reaches it's wrong this could develop and the middle of southern china we might see a little bit of rain in the next day or so i don't think it amount to much to be honest but occasional showers hong kong remains dry shanghai remains dry. proserpine not least on late tuesday west of all the same lines of last tuesday expect the same sort of weather we've got certainly some outbreaks a snowy weather in the high grounds of tibet and plateau but this here hints at potential showers in west bengal and also bangladesh and there they are i

the political maturity of the country so they've been saying the senegalese people are always going to vote for the president and they're going to do it in and i hope that's what's going to happen today and till now it's happening i mean that's i thank you very much now there's still a few hours to go before the polling station closes and it's worth remembering that in two thousand and twelve people came out. to vote against. in favor of markey cell after seven years in power he wants to run for a second mandate and then just hours to come we'll find out what the senate the least people want. all right nicholas nicholas thank you. now as seen in the go shares are appointed by donald trump is on his way to the middle east to promote a future peace plan that israel and palestine president from sun and or jared krishna was expect to accompany jason green blinds in a weeklong tour of gulf states the u.s. delegation will outline the economic elements of a proposal in the ending a decades old conflict with al-jazeera a senior political analyst marwan bashar joins me in the studio now we have

that he sells supporters celebrate as official results given a second term a senegalese president without the need for a. hello get a welcome back to the national weather forecast well has been a beautiful week here across much of central and western europe unfortunately that is now going away we're now seeing that area of high pressure moving over here towards the east and it's allowing more moisture to come across parts of central europe as well as temperatures are coming down so those above average temperatures those record breaking temperatures are now gone across much of western europe so here on friday london a nice day for you but down to twelve degrees there paris at thirteen and they are quick have across central europe rain as well as snow here on friday as we go towards saturday another system coming in from the atlantic and that will bring a few waves of rain and showers across the region but we do expect to see some very windy conditions across parts of scotland as well as northern ireland by the time we get towards the weekend down here across another part of africa where we

two different voters two visions for senegalese future. now magistrates will be doing the counting as we speak on. under the careful watch of the opposition because here the opposition have accused the justice system of favoring my self in the past two years two opposition leaders have been arrested. convicted of corruption charges the opposition accuses mikey cell of using the courts in its favor in order for my cue song to win this election on the first round he has more than fifty one percent of the vote the opposition believes that he doesn't have that number and that there will be a second round and if there is a second round will be a vote on the twenty fourth of march and for the moment here in senegal there has been no celebration not on the marquee solid site nor on the opposition side everybody's waiting to hear from the election commission for the final results back to you liz thank you very much for that for now and that is a correspondent with the latest live and al thank you. well counting also underway in nigeria after the p

projects a new airport new regional train services and even a brand new city among them not all senegalese profit from those success stories. for most of the one million people living in central dhaka he sells grand projects haven't brought much in the markets hygienic conditions are terrible and there are improvised vegetable stands everywhere. but it's not good when you're the president has to bring costs down and bring lots of money into senegal everything is too expensive especially food. and goods i want a president who brings prices down. if the president can keep things going the better it is for all of us just stability stability is all i want. five years ago oil was discovered in senegal that's attracted international investors. as an economist he doesn't believe that investment is translating into real benefits for ordinary people. on average senegal has six percent economic growth but that can't be felt in the economy because the local businesses have such a tiny tiny part in these projects. alongside the traditional yellow taxis more and more large four wheel drives are appeari

and the opposition candidates maintain that the country's economic advances have not reached many senegalese people especially young men often risk everything to my great teacher. i want to bring in our correspondent will be africa's jaime sunday at mali and he's going to be giving us more analysis at to this election really i just want to point out that we've had another big election result of a continent and that was nigeria we had a lot of people calling fall they have but let's start off by establishing a me if you will was this a free and faith election. i mean synagogue has a history of for conducting free and fair election and this one was no exception on that so observers from the european union from the unit you from the african union and also from the eco whereas the west african. union they are seeing that the process was going there that were free and free so but there's a problem which is a bit confusing is that that position now rejects so the run a roped off mark is that he rejects the election even though he's saying he's not going to appear ok that's a very interesting one o

and foremost we need stability jobs for the young and infrastructure to around fifteen percent of senegalese between the ages of fifteen and thirty five are unemployed and mostly earn a living through the informal sector most of the people here in the market see remedying this as an urgent priority. to india now by it has been enjoying a property boom for years if you invested in real estate they used to do pretty well but that's a thing of the past thousands of apartments that unsold in the indian financial power buyers biding their time in the hope of further price drops back in twenty seventeen real estate prices fell by five percent in last year it was almost seven percent it may take nearly two years to sell off just the unsold properties that are consultants ninth night frank predict will the next real estate prices be made in india here's a report from mumbai the property consultant. me has been in the business for a long time he was always said that you couldn't go wrong with real estate in mumbai but now apartments are getting harder to sell for a good price at least. be an investor

of all the senegalese i hope this president will be myself and i pray for that. well it. is in the capital dhaka for us so they have gone so far nichols. it's gone pretty well i mean we're at this polling station. we're just a stone's throw away from the presidential palace and this is a hold of the opposition and since this morning six o'clock we've seen people lining up to come and cast their vote despite a call from former president to boycott this election really people came out in numbers to try to express themselves because at stake is not just the future of the future president of this country but the future of senegal itself just recently barbara there was an oil discovery of an estimated value of fifteen billion dollars now this could change the future of this country barbara. well it's interesting also in the campaign of course you have the incumbent president the president of the vote saying that basically it's an economic success story not quite the story told by the opposition how do most people there feel about it. it's interesting that you point th

was right i am the candidate of continuity and progress the one that will bring prosperity to all senegalese during his time in office new company registrations tripled among them is impact a car an incubator for startups i think it's a great time for a youngster it was really to take a number of risks because very little things like this in my field and entrepreneurship there are a lot of things that are here and now going to appear before one inauguration after the other cell is changing the capitals landscape promoting and narrative of a rising senegal just a few kilometers away from downtown the car is a two billion dollar construction site it's called genuine to present my case i want to turn this into a silicon valley for west africa but if you travel away from the cranes and building sites there is another senegal with a different narrative this is. two hundred kilometers from the car and there are villages with no running water electricity or hospitals children suffer from malnutrition. you sick out walked away from this life traveling across the mediterranean into europe with the ho

can send us a message on whatsapp or telegram plus nine seven four one one four nine six million senegalese are voting for their next leader president macky sall banking on a booming economy to help him sweep back into office but opposition candidates are focusing on poverty and unemployment they say are pushing more people to leave senegal because reports from the capital dakar. senegal rising prosperous educated and with a booming economy it's this vision that president like you said he's promoting to get reelected i want you i am the candidate of continuity and progress the one that will bring prosperity to all senegalese. during his time in office new company registrations tripled among them is impact a car an incubator for startups but i think it's a great time for a youngster it was really to take a number of risks because very a lot of things like this in my field and entrepreneurship there are a lot of things that are here and now going to appear before inauguration after the other side is changing the capital's landscape promoting and narrative of a rising senegal. just a few kilom

another that you know in rebuilding what he has achieved during his time in office the life of senegalese has gotten better the economy's growing at the rate of more than seven percent this. the capitol has a new train line and you airport and these are all achievements that seem to speak to the majority of senegalese around the world more than twenty thousand prisoners are in death row watching for their sentences to be carried out capital punishment is still a legal reality in fifty four countries a congress in brussels this week is examining whether the death penalty achieves its stated aims or whether it should be abolished while white paul brennan is that . who deserves to die the title of saffir morris photographic portrait series on display here at the world congress against the death penalty in brussels. this. this is a campaigning for him petitioning for clemency that vacating judicial reform with a remarkable cross-section of speakers and delegates my name is and. i spent twenty years in prison twenty of those years was on death row for granted i didn't commit demain was wrongly

and that the chosen president also be the president of all the senegalese i hope this president will be myself and i pray for that well. in the capital dhaka for us. it's gone pretty well i mean we're at this point. we're just a stone's throw away from the presidential palace and this is hold of the opposition in this morning six o'clock we've seen people lining up to come and cast their vote despite a call from former president to boycott this election really people came out in numbers to try to express themselves because at stake is not just the future of the future president of this country but the future of senegal itself just recently barbara there was an oil discovery over the next immediate value fifty billion dollars now this could change the future of this country. well it's interesting also in the campaign of course you have the incumbent.

oppose the official provisional results that show he won by fifty eight percent over six million senegalese voted on sunday to elect a new leader. more from the car more outside monkey cells headquarters and people have come here to celebrate the news that he has won with more than fifty eight percent of the vote only then its people came out in number in record numbers sixty eight percent of the lecturer came out to vote during this election to really has a mandate from a large part of the people but there are those who haven't voted for him a lot of young first time voters who decided to vote for the opposition candidate who spun song go he's the outsider the anti establishment. candidate and he has campaigned on the issue of unemployment to try to stop so many senegalese from migrating going across the mediterranean into europe he says the issue that people want. electricity water health care i know these are the issues that much to so we'll have to address during his five year mandate but it's clear that his campaign he's going through the last two weeks going across across various regi

run three presidential campaign in the past both together at a press conference calling on the senegalese press to be cautious to not announce numbers so early pointing the finger especially to the to the french media to the french state media remember that senegal is a former french colony. because they were quoting numbers from senegalese media close to mikey solved so they called on the election commission to come out quickly and to really give out the numbers the official numbers because they believe that a second round or it is likely in this election of course for my two to win for the first on the first round he needs to win more than fifty one percent of the vote and for the opposition they believe that he does he hasn't reached fifty one percent and the opposition has won enough votes for a second round what we know for sure martine is that people came out in numbers yesterday according to the engine and vote more than sixty percent of the electorate came out to vote and cast their ballots take a look at this report. counting the vote under the careful watch of party observers an

around two hundred thousand young people into the senegalese jobs market every year that many of t them end up having to workn the informal sector. here in st louis mo a twenty eight year old lost his graduate spent a long time looking for employment. logic i'm all caught on i created my own i think on three weeks ago awesome and yeah but yeah. i'm all will vote on sunday and he has certain expectations and i'm proud to join glancing at lehman needs to be a priority in my opinion is on now because it's more important. if there were no jobs. and to me for the rest of us. model as the city be don't one of his younger customers doesn't believe in campaign promises. if push out with the old and in with the new if you want to see an agreement saying that's the reason why i don't really believe in it anymore. young people here have been following the campaign closely sheik omar sells mobile phones he wants to see the rule of law problemsms with the system isn't good especially the justice system is no good. when you have money and you have to do it justice you can manage easily to serve for s

another that you know in rebuilding what he has achieved during his time in office the life of senegalese has gotten better the economy's growing at the rate of more than seven percent this capital hands and you trainline new airport and these are all the children that seem to speak to the majority of cynical these hundreds of protesters in sudan have once again taken to the streets to defy the government's ban on public gatherings. chanting freedom peace a revolution for the people many join mass rallies across the country for widespread protests broke out in december over the price of crude but they've evolved into a larger movement against the president. morgan sat down with some of the protesters to ask if they're ready to negotiate. in this room moment to appreciate brings his passion of creating visual arts to life a filmmaker he says his dream is to reflect the beauty he sees in sudan but he says that's difficult because of the lack of freedom. so there is nothing that was ever shot. that describes sudan the way is the way it means to be described. because of the restrictions that

of businesses a real estate agency a restaurant and a barber shop where he was arrested by the senegalese security forces just weeks ago through a tip off of the indian intelligence services that have been looking for him for the last fifteen years now he owns this restaurant the maharajah very popular among the ex-pat customers myself included i have eaten here and been served by this man who would come at the end of the meal distributing sweets with a smile a little did we know that he was in fact an indian gangster wanted for murder and also wanted because he tried to extort money out of bollywood stars like khan she is now in the custody of the senegalese authorities they tell me that in his possession was a passport from brick enough ah so he told them that he married someone from britain and france the some fifteen years ago he goes under the name of tony fernandez very popular among even the indian community here who didn't know that he was in fact an indian gangster he was last seen a back in january distributing prizes and presents cricket game the indians want him back if senten

more than social commentary this is a view many young senegalese have of their political system days after sunday's presidential election the anxiously wait for the results although we grew up with this idea that cheating and corruption are part of the political system we have been many plea to them brainwashed to think this is normal that being dishonest is the way to succeed in the system but this is not what we want this has to stop. while the electoral commission is counting the votes cells prime minister announce his victory with fifty seven percent of the vote much to the surprise of the opposition. but in a joint press conference candidate second song goes a marquee cell does not have enough votes to win he needs fifty percent of the electorate to claim victory without a second round the election commission has yet to announce the final results and already candidates it seems are preparing to contest the final outcome card in this hustle for power or the people of senegal. it is a young population made up mostly of belittles have lived under only two presidents aged ninety two

office between two thousand and twelve and two thousand and eighteen we've seen droves of young senegalese crossing the mediterranean trying to make it to europe and they're not fleeing at war or conflict they're fleeing poverty and that's one of the issues at heart of this election hossam. nicolas hard life for us there in dakar senegal thanks nicholas a plenty more ahead on news out disturbing figures from the united nations number of civilians killed in afghanistan last year. religious groups in cuba are often noms as voters consider changes to the constitution to what has them so upset . their role in the chinese city i mean they race and in sport qatar pushes to become the front runners in the sport of kings. so all that still ahead but first the head of the roman catholic church has. for an all out battle against abuse by priests pope francis spoke on the last day of a conference on sex abuse within the church he called it an abominable crime which must be erased rory chalons has more from vatican city. in his speech at the end of this historic four day meeting of the vatican on sexu

amnesty international's western central africa defeated regional director she joins me now from the senegalese capital dhaka hi samir good to have you with us thanks and welcome to day to be as africa what is your assessment off the situation in cameroon as we speak. to what you can say that the situation in relations human rights is getting worse and worse in the country. and nation in the area. in. their recent religion and. any kind of. region. and this is why we've seen the. hugely mass arrests during the demonstrations in region last month all right so we're talking about the leader of the opposition going on on trial on that sort of point out view is that the procedure in the country that we're talking about camera is that a judge is still assessing if there is enough evidence to go to trial and that's where we're at right now. i just want to know is there a chance as a mirror that this judge finds that there is not enough evidence and that there won't be a trial offer or in which charges that could result in the death penalty could be hurt. the candle and the world of people that have b

briefly what is this next time of macky sall like each adult like what does he need to do full young senegalese people. i think one of the things that she needs to do is to creates more jobs you know for people so you have you have like i'm on the program three three reaches of both fifteen percent which is the. figure so it's going to be more than that so i think there will be there will be or so very important if you can if you can do that so that the young people who wouldn't have seen it and we have seen that before from saying god are coming to europe and risking their life all right africa's talking to us about that cynical election result from body thank you thank you now to the central african republic where a former activists and will get it for me in france has returned to his homeland in that war torn country to train what he calls soldier has often led it may not be what you think he has launched an organic farm in the capital bangui and is spreading the gospel of innovation while growing organic fruits and vegetables. she is a soldier of the land so is he two student farmers out of

the senegalese comedian is impersonating all five candidates including president mikey sol on the campaign trail. thanks. for all the cells every move poking fun at the president who for now seems to be the favorite in the race. and the problem is he got so fat that it's not easy to run a race when you put on so much weight if he wants another five years he's going to explode and so for his own well being he needs to pull out of the race thanks laughing at a sitting president is no joke in many african countries and beyond it could land a comedian in jail but not in senegal political satire has a longer tradition than democracy itself none of the five candidates have complained about the skits because humor is part of the campaign. to take get along with the daily news in iraq the political satire show on the election the aim is to hold to account each promise made by candidates a reminder that people not politicians are in charge ahead of the polls you can live people just achieve your goals in a stand what. are we not we're not. we're not running for governor we're not running for mayor

six million senegalese head to the polls to decide who will lead the country for the next five years president. relying on a bustling economy to give. one of west africa's most stable democracies and the young voters will play a crucial role in. the community and. the hash tag. also on the grid pope francis to bring to justice the vatican is set to unveil its plan to protect children from predatory priests within the catholic church but is it enough for abuse survivors have been calling for real accountability. so you're with a news group live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and dot com good to have you with us on this sunday now it was a high risk operation to get tons of aid into venezuela opposition leader. volunteer. yes to collect and transport the aid from brazil and colombia but the efforts set off fierce border clashes with soldiers instead saturday brought violence death or not much movement trucks of beans rice sugar and medical supplies donated by nations backing why does bid for power have been set on fire or are sitting idle just outside the co

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and that the chosen president to be also be the president of all the senegalese i hope this president will be myself and i pray for that observers say as many as thirty five people were killed in election violence in nigeria on saturday votes are being counted in the closely fought race it's expected to be a close call between president mohamed who hari and his main rival. voters queued for hours into saturday night for many polling stations stayed open late while the red carpet is being rolled out for the academy awards in what could be a night of history making firsts for the film industry. business black panther is the first superhero movie ever nominated for best picture meanwhile mexican film roma is also up for a top of the warden of that one wins over the first time the award has gone to a foreign language movie the freddie mercury via. rhapsody is up for several awards as well one of its directors has been dogged by controversy over sexual abuse allegations those of the top stories face the face mandela and the clerk is next. that's my thought first thanks for the know we're j

of businesses a real estate agency a restaurant and a barber shop where he was arrested by the senegalese security forces just weeks ago through a tip off of the indian intelligence services that have been looking for him for the last fifteen years now he owns this restaurant the maharajah very popular among the ex-pat customers myself included i have eaten here and been served by this man who would come at the end of the meal distributing sweets with a smile a little did we know that he was in fact an indian gangster wanted for murder and also wanted because he tried to extort money out of bollywood stars like shah rukh khan he's now in the custody of the senegalese authorities they tell me that in his possession was a passport from brick enough ah so he told them that he married someone from britain emphasis on fifteen years ago he goes under the name of tony fernandez very popular among even the indian community here who didn't know that he was in fact an indian gangster he was last seen a back in january distributing prizes and presents cricket game the indians want him back if senten

more than social commentary this is a view many young senegalese have of their political system days after sunday's presidential election the anxiously wait for the results. of what we grew up with this idea that cheating and corruption are part of the political system we have been in many plea to them brainwashed to think this is normal that being dishonest is the way to succeed in the system but this is not what we want this has to stop. while the electoral commission is counting the votes cells prime minister announce his victory with fifty seven percent of the vote much to the surprise of the opposition but in a joint press conference candidate second son qusay marquis cell does not have enough votes to win he needs fifty percent of the electorate to claim victory without a second round the election commission has yet to announce the final result and already candidates it seems are preparing to contest the final outcome card in this hustle for power or the people of senegal. it is a young population made up mostly of belittles most have lived under only two presidents aged ninety

it must be said that the candidate has confiscated the will of the senegalese people and will be only one to bear the consequences in the face of the people and history . while the other candidates reject the results they say they want to peel the outcome during the two we campaigned incumbent president boasted of his achievements the economy is growing at an unprecedented rate of seven percent the number one has tripled so all promises to turn seven going to middle income economy thanks in part to the recent oil and gas discoveries estimated to be worth more than the fifty billion dollars but unemployment remains high and nearly half of senegalese live on less than two dollars a day thousands have attempted to cross the mediterranean not war but the lack of economic opportunities. candidate attracted mostly young voters frustrated with corruption the political system and calling for change the challenge for president is to address grievances of young people who haven't voted for him who are unemployed and struggle despite the economic growth. during his two thousand and twelve campai

colonial era acquisitions the proposals put forward by french art historian benedicts of wa and the senegalese scholar phil when sour could have far reaching consequences for. their report was commissioned by french president emmanuel mccomb he's pledged to begin repatriating stolen artworks to africa within five years. we really hope that mccalls announcement on our report won't just be empty words but will have real consequences. it doesn't only apply to france but to many european countries. they are also invited to look at their colonial past and above all about their present relations with africa which are still shaped by colonialism in my eyes this is absolutely fundamental that. france is leading the way but what about the other former colonial powers. belgium too has a problematic legacy. the famous royal museum for central africa just outside brussels recently reopened after undergoing an extensive make over. it was long overdue. the museum features a magnificent collection of artifacts it was long criticized for being an exhibition of colonial propaganda now it reflects. the african

more than social commentary this is a view many young senegalese have of their political system days after sunday's presidential election the anxiously wait for the results. we grew up with this idea that cheating and corruption are part of the political system we have been many plaited them brainwashed to think this is normal that being dishonest is the way to succeed in the system but this is not what we want this has to stop. while the electoral commission is counting the votes cells prime minister announce his victory with fifty seven percent of the vote much to the surprise of the opposition. but in a joint press conference candidate edriss second song goes a monkey cell does not have enough votes to win he needs fifty percent of the electorate to claim victory without a second round the election commission has yet to announce the final result and already candidates it seems are preparing to contest the final outcome cartin this hustle for power or the people of senegal it is a young population made up mostly of military most have lived under only two presidents aged ninety two

stability like no other but this stability for the opposition comes at a cost the leader of the senegalese democratic party karim wanted it is in exile and convicted on corruption charges while the popular former mayor. remains in jail the opposition accuses of cells government of using the courts to clamp down on political opponents nonsense says former prime minister today this has nothing to do with. politics it's about mismanagement of public funding and i think in his program i think presidents have made it very clear that he would like to make progress on fighting corruption with the two leading figures of the opposition out of the race it seems there's no stopping. he's been opening one infrastructure project after another jumpstarting and now booming economy. this is the latest infrastructure project in are greeted by president mikey sol it's a building for government officials and ministers a building helps to be in charge of if you wins a second mandate because the challenge for sol is to translate his economic success into votes. while the economy is booming political freedom is