they defied the ban on assembly to answer the call of their leader alexina volley. and under the eyes of the great poet pushed in the reclaimed moscow students more transparency the right to freedom of expression and a crackdown on corruption where the main demands their message was clear from flags and with bodies and chanted in chorus. perch and get lost. some have even wrote for the president sixty fifth barfi. but this was no party. on those and we want him gone on this quickly as possible and here's rule for eighteen years he's been president or prime minister for all of my adult years we believe people in power should face reelection in substantial dollars not less i mean it's always just the most this is what we're here to support ali who has called people to ensure the future of the country because we want real competition in the upcoming presidential elections. the first three of them on your choice to leave the police also break up protests in putin's hometown of sin petersburg hundreds were arrested across russia many subjected to brutal place treatment.

in st petersburg broke up demonstrations against reading a putin supporters of opposition leader alexina vonnie held the ranis to mock putin sixty fifth birthday and protests have been held across australia against its largest coal mine project the indian group adani is behind the proposal its ripple promising to bring thousands of jobs but environmentalists say it will destroy the great barrier reef you're upset with headlines on al-jazeera inside story is next to stay with us. with. saudi arabia and russia have been rivals for decades and on opposite sides on many

in russia people take to the streets across the country to support of jailed opposition activists alexina valley he's pressuring all forty's to let him into the twenty eighteen presidential race we'll go live to a correspondent in st petersburg for more. and in the united states people on the gulf coast pre-packed as hurricane n.h. beds down on the category one hurricane is expected to make landfall later today after causing more than twenty deaths across central america. from having a home free good to have you with us massive demonstrations have been held in spain's biggest cities as the tussle over catalonia is independence moves on to the streets in barcelona thousands of people wearing white gathered near the mayor's office to call for dialogue between supporters and opponents of council on independence at the same time people for spanish unity folks to the center of the spanish capital moderate. and a w correspondent ana sophia seaborn is in barcelona for us good to see you know we saw that huge demonstration a balsa lona what was the message. well the message was as you freddy ment

pierce and celebrate his sixty fifth birthday and perhaps in a plot to spoil the day position figure alexina valley had called for these nationwide protests now here in moscow we store turnout of around seven hundred people and a small number of people were detained that's now over those people have been released now what i should point out is that not all of these rallies have been authorized by the author. is something you need when you bring together a large number of people for safety concerns traffic regulations and things like this so while police have been present at these rallies they've launched been there to ensure that everything remains peaceful so yes so far no violence in the one of the biggest turnouts was op north or was that in some petersburg that's one of the biggest turnouts was in st petersburg up to a thousand people reported to have been at that rally now that's officially over although still quite a lot of people on the streets so some petersburg now as a result police say dozens have been detained for violating traffic regulations after we saw some confrontations pro

a russia people take to the streets across the country in support of jailed opposition activists alexina bound he's pressuring health ortiz to let him enter the twenty eight thousand presidential race we'll go live to our correspondent in st petersburg for more. on that and a home free thanks for joining me we begin with breaking news from london british police say several people have been injured off they call mounted at the pavement outside the natural history museum they say one man was detained at the scene the area in west london has been sealed off off to the incident police said inquiries to. stablish the circumstances and any motive on the way. well i witnesses have been describing what happened at three p.m. . to. shut. the other and then. take a man on the ground and. i just see it to demand from the car put it on the ground and then thirty minutes later. the streets. well let's bring in our correspondent back at mass who is in london burkett what's the latest well this is exactly the latest the police haven't released any new information they have said that one man is detained

central moscow to stage a demonstration against the president's allies of the opposition activists alexina valmy weight and health placards calling on a lot of if you tune to retire those processes be mimicked in cities across the country including some pieces or challenge his life in moscow for us now and how is the day played out so far. well i think there are a couple of notable things about saturday's protests across russia i think about eighty cities in the country we're seeing demonstrations of some variety or another today the first thing that i noticed out on the streets of moscow was the numbers were significantly down on previous demonstrations this year there was one in the summer and another one in the spring which pulled in many thousands this demonstration in moscow i would say maybe seven hundred to a thousand people maximum. the other thing that we noticed on the streets of moscow was a much lighter police touch in previous demonstrations there have been huge numbers of arrests with people being bundled into police vans and driven off that didn't happen in moscow although i

putin celebrates his sixty fifth birthday and perhaps in a plot to spoil the day opposition figure alexina valmy had called for these nationwide protests so here in moscow we store turnout of around seven hundred people in a small number of people were detained fast now over those people have been released now what i should point out is that not all of these rallies have been authorized by the or thorazine is authorization is something you need when you bring together a large number of people for safety concerns traffic regulations and things like this so while police have been present at these rallies that last evening there to ensure that everything remains peaceful the biggest turnout was in st petersburg up to a thousand people reported to have been at that rally now police say dozens have been detained for violating traffic regulations so after we saw some confrontations protesters attempted to block police access also police and were forced to issue warnings after a number of protesters use force to break police blockades now what's interesting about this rally in some cases is that

putin celebrates his sixty fifth birthday and perhaps in a plot to spoil the day position figure alexina valley had called for these nationwide protests now here in moscow resorts one out of around seven hundred people in a small number of people were detained fast now over those people have been released now what i should point out is that not all of these rallies have been authorized by the author authorization is something you need when you bring get together a large number of people for safety concerns traffic regulations and things like this so while police have been present at these rallies that last evening there to ensure that everything remains peaceful the biggest turnout was in st petersburg up to a thousand people reported to have been at that rally not police say dozens have been detained for violating traffic regulations for us after we saw some confrontations protesters attempted to block police access also police and were forced to issue warnings off to a number of protesters use force to break a police blockade now what's interesting about this rally in some petersburg i

plot to spoil the day and nationwide protests have been called by the prominent opposition figure alexina valmy now here in moscow resource when i was about seven hundred people that's including the members of the press in a small number of attendees were detained they've now been released the rally is now over i should stress that these rallies taking place that none of them are being authorized by city or dorothy's organization is something you need to hold a rally with a huge number of people because of safety and traffic access and things like that so. the police have largely been there just to ensure safety and no violence breaks out so they've been very risk restrained and they've had a lot of restraint in being there today. just. petersburg and some other cities to say that's right like i said before on the campaign team they have these protests for eighty cities across russia and it's of petersburg which is president putin's hometown we're expected to see the largest protests to take place there and now we've seen around a thousand votes sorry we've been keeping across that she wa

policy an opposition leader in russia is putting his feet up after release from prison alexina only was jailed for twenty days for organizing protests against the president vladimir putin novelli wants to stand against mr putin the next year's presidential election but a criminal conviction which he says is politically motivated bars him from challenging mr putin the maltese government is offering a one point two million dollars reward for information on the murder of an investigative journalist daphne was killed in a car bomb attack on monday she said she found links between multiple prime minister joseph my scouts and offshore accounts as revealed in the panama papers families refused to endorse their award saying it would only do so if the prime minister resigned. somali intelligence says a turkish military base was the real target of two attacks in the capital mogadishu last week more than three hundred fifty people lost their lives and many more were injured somehow to reports now on turkey's involvement in somalia. on our prime piece of land in the somali capital mogadishu is the

president vladimir putin are holding anti-government protests to mark his birthday opposition leader alexina volley was jailed last week for organizing banned public meetings put in a servant has third term as president has made russia a key player in world politics particularly the war in syria his party promotes him as a tough no nonsense leader who is physically active despite turning sixty five on saturday let's go to our correspondent roy challenge now he's joining us live from moscow are people answering volleys call to protest rory. well people are starting to gather now in pushkin square in the center of moscow but it's still quite a small crowd after say the demonstration officially started a few minutes ago but at the moment they seem to be as many journalists here as there are official demonstrators the police presence is fairly minimal as well there are a couple of officers walking around with loudspeakers telling people to disperse that they should be gathering here blocking the sidewalk six cetera i think it's going to be interesting to see how many people are in a valley is ca

allies of the opposition into alexina. down as the president marks his birthday. it is the final day of campaigning for liberia's presidential election twenty candidates competing to replace annan who is standing down after two terms in office tuesday's will be the first since the country's fourteen year civil war and its. president when elected back in two thousand and five. people in power is coming up by. one of the world's few remaining calm in the states. one of asia's poorest countries heavily reliant on foreign investment especially from adjacent china. professionally and with a helping hand which just by. the it . the golden triangle yes. for many is a popular destination for western tourists. but they are no longer the only visitors here. the chinese are the most recent foreigners to fall in love with the lazy golden waters of the me home river. in less than a year a brand new city has sprung up on its shores. a chinese enclave in boston territory. it's a city without a mayor but it does have a casino. he poses tourists and high up a local guide and. we'r

of people defied a ban on public gatherings to show their support for jailed opposition politician alexina valmy demanding he be allowed to run in next year's presidential election. and in spain thousands of people have taken part in protests calling on spanish and catalan leaders to enter the country's political crisis there remains unclear whether catalonia still plans to declare independence from spain in the days ahead . you're watching news from more coming up at the top of the hour with my colleague christopher spring gate you can always get the latest news on a website that is d.w. dot called i'm having a humphrey in ballad by for now. carry one mind it was made by you bend them as mellie and i did are you words do you generally. only words events in stories. mean they turn them and then you go on to words with this you tell me about when you should better check it out yourself you and you today.

to the russian court has sentenced the opposition leader alexina all these to twenty years in jail for organizing a legal public meetings he was arrested on friday after his rally in the city of foreign burg of only intends to run for president against vladimir putin in next year's election. at least sixteen people have been killed in a triple bombing at a police station in the syrian capital damascus a car bomb exploded and two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside of the building the country's interior minister said that another attacker got inside before being shot by police during mass chaos has seen relatively little violence in syria's five year civil war. well why do we feel awake during the day and sleepy at night apparently it's down to your body's inner clock or your circadian rhythm and it turns out that our circadian rhythms are crucial to our well being so much so that the men who discovered the importance of the body's natural rhythms have been awarded the nobel prize for medicine they are american scientists jeffrey hall and michael rose bash and michael young who w

there's been a day of protest in russia with demonstrators calling for jailed opposition leader alexina valmy to be allowed to run for president. also on this program. the cross tracing over the political mess here and get to know your runs very deep people tell me they hope to bring a swift and crisp and steepest political crisis in decades to w.'s gale is taking us through the streets of boston lona and asking whether catalonia can inch back from declaring independence. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a thanks for joining us hurricane nate is barreling towards the u.s. gulf coast all thought he's there saying the storm is traveling at rap. speed towards the southeastern tip of the state of louisiana they're warning residents not to take it lightly the hurricane killed at least twenty eight people when it passed through central america a state of emergency has been declared in parts of louisiana alabama mississippi and florida residents of new orleans prepare to hunker down for hurricane ace the storm is forecast to start by louisiana's biggest city but even interact co

now supporters of russian opposition activists alexina valley have taken to the streets in cities across the country not only is currently serving a twenty day prison sentence of calling for an on or to rise protest he's called on his supporters to demand that also refused to allow him to enter the twenty eighty presidential race session a demonstration to coincide with president fled the mid fuken busting there are police the police have arrested protest this film city. and we can speak now to all russia correspondent and the show when he's following the protest march and president putin's hometown of st petersburg and many what's happening where you are well the protests part of the protests have actually far around the city earlier on people had assembled on the field of cars and before kind of waiting there and then people started to move and they moved to several different squares throughout the city on the way people were arrested i saw a large amount of riot police and brussels the people being brought to have. being arrested brought to prison and it's unclear how many people were

a russian court has sentenced the opposition leader alexina vonnie to twenty days in jail for organizing illegal public meetings he was arrested on friday after this rally in the city of or in bor no bonnie intends to run for president against vladimir putin in next year's election. and the death toll in separatist violence in cameroon has risen to at least seventeen with dozens more people wounded clashes broke out on sunday between protesters and security forces in the country's english speaking regions english speaking activists are calling for independence from the prince majority. after the bile and surrounding sunday's independence referendum in catalonia people in the spanish region are holding a day of protest marches roadblocks and sit ins like this one in central barcelona are under way across the province as part of a strike action against heavy handed police tactics cattle and authorities say twenty four different protests are blocking several roads and motorways creating queues of up to ten kilometers public transport is also suspended for most of the day. as tensions run hi

russian opposition leader alexina vall ne has held a rally in his home after being released from jail he served a twenty day term in moscow for organizing what officials call an authorized protests now vali has held numerous rallies across the country since announcing his intention to stand in next year's election against president vladimir putin. campaigners for more autonomy in the italian regions of lombardy and veneto claiming victory in a referendum on giving more powers to the local governments the presidents of both regions said an overwhelming majority of voters back to proposals for greater autonomy. iraq and saudi arabia have founded a joint cooperation council in a move aimed at improving bilateral diplomatic relations tensions between the two has been high in the past iraq has a shia majority population and close ties to saudi arabia's regional rival iran. hundreds of hardliners who just have marched in myanmar to protest against their government's plan to allow up to six hundred thousand refugees back into the country they fled after myanmar's military began raiding and b

and regional president has accused madrid of attacking democracy and the russian opposition leader alexinavalley has held a rally hours after being released from prison he was jailed for twenty days for organizing anti kremlin protests but said killing the countess coming next by. a small estrus north of jerusalem. today it's derelict and abandoned. but for years kalandia our airport was the gateway to palestine. on the morning of the seventeenth of september one thousand nine hundred forty eight a white plane carrying the u.n. and red cross markings landed here. with the first arab israeli war already raging across palestine the un mediator count folke album of dog had come to jerusalem. that same afternoon. as it passed through the israeli controlled part of the city. his convoy was ambushed. by. the way and three guys with machine guns just came out. to us i went up to the fourth quarter. third one went directly to the third controlled through the window. by five p.m. from bernadotte was the day. the assassination was carried out by and that stream missed zionist. lahey. fighters for th

main natural gas field and the city of raka after a four month campaign russian opposition leader alexina valmy has been released from jail he spent twenty days behind bars for organizing protests against president vladimir putin the valley wants to stand against putin in next year's presidential election as just for remind you of the main news again this hour u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is on his way to doha after a round of diplomacy in saudi arabia that saw little sign of a breakthrough over the saudi led blockade on cattle rex tillerson met king solomon and the crown prince before a press conference with the foreign minister at all i'll do you bear in which we learned very little it's been four months since riyadh the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain suspended ties with those the headlines the news continues here on the to the listening post next. an indian mining company is heading to australia to build one of the world's biggest mines will it be an economic bonanza or an ecological disaster. at this time and how does it. tell you the producer harvey weinstein the actual crash. was

in russia people take to the streets across the country in support of jailed opposition activist alexina valley he's pressuring will forward you to that to enter the twenty eighteen presidential race for their lives to our correspondent in st petersburg from will. find out on the home free thanks for joining me we begin with breaking news from london british. police say several people have been injured off to a call hit pedestrians outside the natural history museum police were quickly deployed to the scene where they say they detained one man now police say they keeping an open mind as to whether the incident was terrorism related it's security is high in britain often a series of terrorist attacks this year several of them involving vehicles. all the natural history museum is located in a part of west london which is popular with tourists the world famous victoria and albert museum and many other attractions are close by and the area has been sealed off. now i witness is have been describing what happened let's take a listen at three p.m. i saw two car one go one car goes shut. and the

will join us with the latest also coming up protestors in russia call for jailed opposition leader alexina vonnie to be allowed to run for president we'll have the latest in a report. and germany has qualified for the twenty eighteen world cup but that won't stop some of the young guns from using the country's final game against azerbaijan to show their coach why they deserve to go to russia next summer. hello and welcome i'm michel henery good to have you with us a massive rally is expected in barcelona today against plans by cut a line leaders to declare independence this comes after a referendum was held in the region last week which the central government has called illegal in a television interview spanish prime minister mariano rajoy warned he won't rule out suspending catalonia regional autonomy to stop separatists from splitting from madrid. like leverage where we have to return to legality and go back to normal that's with the affirmation as early as possible that there will be no unilateral declaration of independence spain will continue to be spain and it will continue to be spa

a russian court has sentenced the opposition leader alexina vali to twenty years in jail for organizing illegal public meetings he was arrested on friday after his rally in the city of or in bourke in a volley intends to run for president against vladimir putin in next year's election to the palestinian authority prime minister rami hama has led a delegation of fatah officials to the gaza strip for reconciliation talks with rival group hamas last week a mosque distended it's an administration in gaza which it has ruled since two thousand and seven negotiations between the two sides are expected to move to cairo next week. why do we feel alert during the day and sleeping at night well apparently it is down to your body's inner clock your start kadian rhythms and it turns out that circadian rhythms are crucial to our well being so much so that the man who discovered the importance of the body's natural rhythms have been awarded the nobel prize for medicine they are american scientists jeffrey hall michael rose basher and michael young who will share the award the nobel committee said that

supporters of russian opposition activists alexina val may have taken to the streets in cities across the country and valleys currently serving a twenty day prison sentence for calling for an unauthorized protest he has urged his fellow is futile and that also working to allow him to enter the twenty eight presidential race saturday's demonstrations coincide with president vladimir putin's birthday there are reports that police have arrested protested in the. well let's cross live now to our russia correspondent and any show and any tell us more about what's planned for today. well not by a new campaign planned protest in eighty cities all across russia ivory where where are nonviolent has a campaign headquarters and some of those are already taking place as we are to get the number of pictures. happening you see is across the country in the far east. if you're old and even it won't count at all costs go up we stay on second quarter people come out to quickly go there and they have to have a good actually go in the thousands actually is going to be a protest in petersburg which i hear

lies and corruption of their leaders is seemingly taking cue from the playbook of opposition figure alexina valmy who she's openly said she supports and admires and this is fully constitutional any russian citizen not banks by a political party has the right to run as an independent presidential candidate as long as he or she collects at least three hundred thousand signatures which given slovaks profile shouldn't be too hard because danielle staub isn't totally disconnected from the world of politics she's the daughter of the late mare of peter is a man who once employed flooded me uprooted and has been described as putin's mental so given this cozy family connection because there is quite the rebel it raised eyebrows when in two thousand and twelve she joined off position protests against president putin and surprisingly there's been plenty of suspicion about the legitimacy of her decision to enter the race alexina valmy himself. called subject a kremlin stooge being used to simply lend legitimacy to a sham vote also belittling her as a showbiz celebrity just seeking more social media lik

russian opposition leader alexina vonnie to twenty days in jail for calling an unauthorized demonstration as a result the kremlin critic will not be able to lead a major rally in president vladimir putin's hometown of st petersburg on saturday when the longtime leader turned sixty five now volunteers hoping to challenge putin in next year's election but in and basil mint conviction is likely to keep the anti-corruption campaign or off the ballot. me and maher has told the united nations refugee agency that its top priority is to bring back the hinge of muslims who have fled to neighboring bangladesh the two countries have agreed to set up a working group to repatriate more than half a million rand just that escaped an army crackdown in northern iraq current state myanmar officials accuse her hands of militants of launching coordinated attacks on police posts on aug twenty fifth that sparked a mass exodus. three american scientists have been announced and joined winners of this year's nobel prize for medicine the trio are recognized for their discoveries a molecular mechanisms controlling

alexina valmy called for rallies to coincide with the president's sixty fifth birthday on saturday i mean some jail for violating the law on organizing public meetings the police are refusing to let protesters into the center of moscow and st petersburg. a lot more still to come for you here on the news hour including surveying the damage we meet puerto ricans fearing for what will happen to their hurrican hit communities plus. i'm telling you at one forty four african are. energetic market turning point. and the sports news with some of the united states have taken a huge step towards russia twenty eighteen qualifying results from across the globe coming up in about thirty minutes. the u.s. gulf coast is preparing for yet another hurricane nate. it's already battered central america with at least twenty five people killed in flooding and landslides across costa rica nicaragua honduras and el salvador david most as more. nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere tropical storm nate has just made it that much poorer three thousand homes destroyed communicatio

they defied the ban on assembly to answer the call of their leader alexina volley. and under the eyes of the great poet pushkin they reclaimed more school students more transparency the right to freedom of expression and a crackdown on corruption where their main demands their message was clear from flags and with badges and chanted in chorus. person get asked. some have even brought cake for the president sixty fifth birthday but there was no party that usual. on those and we want him gone on this quickly as possible and here's rule for eighteen years he's been president or prime minister for all of my adult years we believe people in power should face reelection in substantial not less i mean it's always just the most this is what we're here to support and vali who has called people out to ensure the future of the country because we want real competition in the upcoming presidential elections. the first degree murder charge the. police also break up protests in putin's hometown of sim petersburg hundreds were arrested across washington many subjected to brutal pla

a russian court has sentenced the opposition leader alexina vali to twenty days in jail for organizing illegal public meetings he was arrested on friday after his rally in the city of orange burg of on the intends to run for president against vladimir putin in next year's election. at least sixteen people have been killed in a triple bombing at a police station in the syrian capital damascus a car bomb exploded and two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside of the building the country's interior minister said that another attacker got inside before being shot by police damascus has seen relatively little violence in syria's five year civil war. ok let's head now back to brenton when guard who we were trying to speak with a little bit earlier about his experience basically attending this concert in las vegas. you know a concert of which we know that you know scores of people are now dead and hundreds more injured threatened as we mentioned where we're really glad to hear that you made it out at least safe can you tell us what you experienced last night you know we when we heard the

in st petersburg broke up demonstrations against reading a putin supporters of opposition leader alexina vonnie held the ranis to mock putin sixty fifth birthday and protests have been held across australia against its largest coal mine project the indian group adani is behind the proposal its ripple promising to bring thousands of jobs but environmentalists say it will destroy the great barrier reef you're upset with headlines on al-jazeera inside story is next to stay with us. with. saudi arabia and russia have been rivals for decades and on opposite sides on many issues the saudi king says story visit suggests a new relationship why now and what does it mean for the middle age this is inside story. a welcome to the program and hasn't it is the first visit by a saudi king to russia and a recognition of new realities and shifting sands in the middle east he said man and president vladimir putin have a number of issues at stake from the war in syria to the global price of oil investment deals worth billions of dollars have also been signed some argue to visit reflects the growing russian

officers in st petersburg broke up demonstrations against vladimir putin supporters of opposition leader alexina vonnie held the rallies to mark routines sixty fifth birthday. and in the u.s. hurricane nate has hit a second state along the gulf coast the storm lashed the city of biloxi mississippi with winds of up to one hundred thirty five kilometers an hour mate has already killed at least thirty people in central america is strengthened again as it moved over the gulf of mexico and hits louisiana on saturday night and those are the headlines inside story is next on al-jazeera stay with us. in the hashtag the room where news coverage of looking for an easy solution we delved deeper from on says and challenge the status quo is join him in the hot sun for a new season of love for him at this time of easy right. saudi arabia and russia have been rivals for decades and on opposite sides on many issues the saudi king says story visit suggests a new relationship why now and what does it mean for the middle eight this is inside story. a welcome to the program and hasn't it is the first visit by a sau

in st petersburg broke up demonstrations against rodney a protein supporters of opposition leader alexina vonnie held the rallies to mark putin sixty fifth birthday or a challenge reports from moscow where police have been more restrained. saturday was a test for alexei navalny and the test for russia's security forces on the day president putin turned sixty five the opposition leader wanted supporters to demand his release from twenty days administrative detention and for him to be allowed to run in next year's presidential elections he's going the been an independent candidate they want the person. top to bottom talk about the real russian problems i love my country very much this is why i am here for a week. i wrote. and. new generation is great. but while unsanctioned rallies earlier in the year drew many thousands of people not nearly so many came this time perhaps the awful weather kept people away moscow at least but perhaps so to get the message this time with less focus on the corruption that blight so many russians lives and more focus on the valley herself and maybe a student g

four months rocca was i saw self declared capital to russia where that country's opposition leader alexina valmy has been released from jail he had spent twenty days behind bars for organizing protests against the president vladimir putin not only wants to stand against putin in next year's presidential election however a criminal conviction which he says is politically motivated bars him from challenging mr putin. italy's wealthy northern regions of long body and benetton are voting on whether to take more control over their own affairs their current for around thirty percent of italian g.d.p. some people there say they resent the amount of their taxes that are being used to pay for services in the poorer south of italy the result of the ballot will not be binding. the head of the world health organization is rethinking his appointment of the zimbabwean president robert mugabe as a goodwill ambassador to the u.k. and the u.s. criticized that decision along with human rights activists and health groups they point to alleged rights abuses in zimbabwe the w.h.o. as chief had earlier said mug

president vladimir putin holding anti-government protests to mark his birthday opposition leader alexina vali was jailed last week for banned public meetings serving his third term as president. now some iraqi politicians say dropping the coffin of the late president jalal talabani with a kurdish flag was an insult to the central government tens of thousands of people pay their last respects to taliban the on friday he championed kurdish self rule before accepting the wrong president in two thousand and three he died in germany on tuesday campaigning is drawing to a close in liberia ahead of elections to find a successor to president ellen johnson sirleaf she's stepping down after serving two terms the election on tuesday will be the third since the civil war there are twenty candidates including vice president. analysts say people looking for a leader who can boost the economy. as are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us the inside story is coming up next thank you for watching. the historic international nuclear deal with iran could collapse a key deadline is looming and all eye

peers and celebrate his sixty fifth birthday and perhaps in a plot to spoil the day position figure alexina valen he had called for these new. protests now here in moscow resorts one out of around seven hundred people and a small number of people were detained that's now over those people have been released but what i should point out is that none of these rallies have been authorized by city or thora cities no authorization is something you need when you bring together a large number of people for safety concerns traffic regulations and things like this so while police have been present at these rallies they've largely been there to mange will ensure that everything remains peaceful there's no violence everyman remain safe and so yes so far no violence voted in moscow you sit home in moscow one of the biggest turnouts was op north there was that in some petersburg that's one of the biggest turnouts was in st petersburg go to also happens to be president putin's hometown perhaps symbolic that the most people turned out to a thousand people reported to have been at that rally now that's offi