that's been interesting we do have more concrete numbers on that the central election commission announced the turnout was forty nine percent which compared to the last parliamentary elections which was last year that was sixty one percent so it's down quite a bit and there's been a lot of speculation about why that might be part of it is certainly that that the old regime used a variety of of unsavory methods to get you to the polls they would organize government workers to go on to go together or or in many cases just broadening them and that's not happening this time around so that certainly accounts for some of that some pro pasha on analysts were suggesting but there are also might be some complacency among the electorate because the polls showed him with such a huge victory that a lot of people thought maybe they just stay home or as these votes come in then let's take a brief look ahead what are the real challenges that ashley young faces if he does indeed gain at that part of the tree majority. while the u.s. going to have a lot of challenges i mean that he's made very big promises

elections to be credible of course there are some. but how duty i can say the duty of this central commission electorate and all the duty of every congolese. to look how to reduce these obstacles so that we can go further we. read about election all these. judgments about the regime. mr kabila these is not the the matter today the matter today is what east or what will be the wing of congress after the vote. ok so i'm going to give you the last word here we only have about two minutes left so please keep that in mind. there's a lot of ifs in this discussion but if elections actually happen next week is that effectively shepherd in a new era of politics in the r.c. . or should a question of if a very simple answer but a very very have to respond to some concern i had from ireland still north korean where we talk in here alone is the only person live in different planet i think is somewhat of things imation tell me what i personally don't know if he's got a really good picture develop a congo in our planet let me mention this island congo has got a lot of are we talking in that countries are going to lead the market now with an introduction

election will now take place on december thirtieth the electoral commission says the violence and the just call issues forced the postponement. tensions are once again running high in spain between barcelona and the central government a year off to snap regional elections pro castle and independence activists are holding protests in barcelona they coincide with prime minister pedro sanchez holding his cabinet meeting in the city sonia diego joins us live from boston or sonia tell us why this protest is happening. when this does if you want to any proof that tensions still continue to simmer here in catalonia fourteen months off to the attempt to see to that today of all days with that cabinet meeting taking place certainly. face security in the capital of the region is high with nine thousand national and regional police deployed to try and prevent the testers from getting close to the location of where the cabinet meeting is taking place but in a sense the government has tried to use this meeting will certainly spawn it as a way the prime minister the spanish prime minister that are such as. put it as a kind of a gesture of warm society as he called it that sentiment could not have been the sieges furth

election commission say the vote will go ahead. only nine people have been killed and many more injured in a high speed train crash just capital shortly after leaving ankara central station a high speed train carrying more than two hundred people collided with a locomotive checking rails on the same route some survivors were able to walk away . shaken but alive a man stumbles from the mangled wreckage of the six thirty train from ankara to kanya in the dark of the early morning rescue teams search for survivors buried beneath a mountain of metal and concrete. emergency services treated the walking wounded as passengers described the scene. was such an argument we hadn't yet reached high speeds when it happened i was in the sixth carriage we could see that the train had been ripped apart and had come off the tracks. the express train was just a few minutes into its fateful journey when it crashed into a maintenance locomotive seen at the bottom here. and then flew into a pedestrian overpass a suburban station and that collapsed it's unclear how fast the train was traveling at the time of impact or why the truck was blocked efforts of now turn to recovery and the s

sergio martinez and i'm a cochair of the united nations commission -- development in central america and some are getting into presidential elections here and so initially you have new talks on the way the congress can revamp the plan and what kind of new directions incorporating to the private sector and especially i would say developing small too medium enterprises, the root causes of migration in terms of education and employmenten opportunities. >> do you want to take that? >> yeah, i think -- all i can say, the two countries with an election next year with guatemala and el salvador, i think in both cases the scenario is interesting. i think one of the manifestations of the governance problems and despair that we were talking about is the erosion and lack of -- you know, just the decline of that. we could end up in a situation in el salvador that none of the traditional -- certainly guatemala has very weak political parties, so what you have is candidacies that are personalistic, very pop ewe list, nationalist, but very personalistic. but i worry that then, you know, they don't address the real policy issues, the issues of what