a stick a note and for the first time the election commission of india which is basically the authority that monitors the election is watching candidates online behavior so candidates have to toe the line the way they have to do in japanese and offline advertising for the first time ever in india's electoral history we actually went down to the southern state of karnataka to read one such young candidate who heavily uses force when we did reach out to waters to find out how he's appealing to the masses while also ensuring that he told the line that the election commission is drawing. but if you're going to go party this is be just recently. about student of the south indian city of bengal to have a lawyer and i am member of parliament was one out of order for the recall at twenty eight he is the youngest candidates from the ruling b.g.p. to contest these elections. and temperatures sort of after the five degrees on this afternoon be just three goals out of his reading to greet him the knowledge every constituent he's seen each not in week is on a beautiful works. but despite the bow to

of india the election commission he owes me money does everything a candidate does being don't drag on advertising but for the first time ever in getting a free election commission of india is also watching what can be done online on course of media platforms like twitter and facebook. policing the world wide web there is no easy down. for a high degree of customization to the advertisers which are good political parties the information off with chooses. is the perfect believe the mccann is a political messaging in which makes it incredibly powerful. but social media can also be problematic dangerous we has been criticised for all tweets opposing reservations for women and supporting the b g p's hindu nationalist agenda he has even want to gag order on the media to prove mentor porting on what he called stephanie tree allegations. but now a group of friends and supporters is harder to work to boost his online image. the content just kept young and peppy to resonate with the just response saw no political cartoons like these in addition help directly establish prime minister narendra

significant difference as far as misinformation is concerned the ality still remains the same the election commission of india announced a certain steps but they were right private actions just at the doorstep of elections and unfortunately that is not good enough time to have any solid effect. thank you very much for speaking to us thank you. from the world's largest democracy to the third largest were just conducted its elections on wednesday preliminary results from indonesia's elections show incumbent joe cole we dawdle in the lead all the official results on expected for weeks the run up to the vote however over dodo and his challenger probabl will still be on to try to reach out to conservative islamic voters in the muslim majority nation so how big of an issue was political islam in that election i put that question to indonesia's ambassador to germany. or girl said no. not really because you have to look at the time span of indonesian politics our first election was in one hundred fifty five and we have seventeen political parties related to islam and davey only have four in the parliament an

become a source of news as well as off social media camp the ending the footage the candidates election commission offend other party that monitor the election is taking norton for the first time that actually monitoring what exactly a candidate does online but it's of course will be a difficult task to be monitoring the worldwide internet we went up to the southern state of karnataka to interact with one young and very about how he manages to reach out to young voters while also toeing the line that the election commission offender has laid out this is what free found. by picking a fight this is the just recently he's about to turn to the south indian city of bengal to have a lawyer and an aspiring member of parliament for joining us one out of order for the recall at twenty eight he is the youngest candidates from the ruling b.g.p. to contest these elections. as temperatures soared about thirty five degrees on the soft be just three goals out of his reading to greet and the college every constituent he sees each not in week is on a beautiful works. but despite the palpable excitement of supporte

will always see new threats a much despite efforts by the social media giant well before the election commission to things fake news could have a big impact at the ballot box. the prevention of mischief. you know subversion all through. the process of election. social media is in the senate and in certain constituencies it's a very significant role and might be used to determine the outcome of their lives. and to follow up from that is just as unpredictable as the indian election itself. so just how effective have the measures been to contain and what sort of an impact would it have on this election four more years do correspondent. india's next government may well be chosen online internet penetration of the country has exploded something last election specially in rural areas smartphone use such as gone up by nearly three times reaching for fifty million people if the election commission has taken north of this monitoring each candidate's online behavior on platforms such as facebook and twitter however this is no easy task as while the candidate can be here rel on his or her own handles they

live now to new delhi al-jazeera is faster male is with us first the election commission has stepped in to prevent a t.v. station there airing material that could be seen as promoting the j.p. and prime minister modi tell us more about that. adrian the channel titled namo t.v. short for narendra modi television it quietly began broadcasting at the end of march and they did so actually without a license because of a loophole in the law now if you saw the channel what you would see is speeches by prime minister modi as well as programming crazy the party and the government opposition parties quickly pounced on this as a clear violation of election laws but it took this long until the day after the first phase of elections for the election commission to take action and adrian is not just this film not just this channel there is a film and biography called pm there and for a movie that was supposed to hit theaters this month now this was a film praising the prime minister in a dream if you ever saw the poster you would see of photo of the actor playing most of the surrounded by smiling c

to act and that's been the main concern here that the election commission has been dragging its heels on any potential violation involving the governing party has gone to the point where several retired civil servants have penned a letter to the president of india calling the election commission's response weak kneed they're concerned that the independence of the election commission may be threatened by them not taking action or even delaying action and that's been a growing concern in some parts of the country that several suppose that independents the two sions in india are losing their independence the election commission just being the most latest example. a senior u.s. military officer has said that the armed forces are ready to move into. craig fala heads the u.s. southern command and told foreign policy magazine that in defense may be needed if sanctions fail to force president nicolas maduro from power al-jazeera newman reports now from portobello in northern venezuela. what does the sinister star wars character darth vader and u.s. economic sanctions against venezuela having

this is not the fall of the election commission i have to underline this is not the fall of the election commission they're doing a great job the thing is the parliament wanted to save money by organizing five elections in a single day very complicated very difficult and no unsurprisingly many people have died this new parliament should immediately every few the exits thing election law making it more human and it should be done now other than later because if it is done to be laid there you know the parliament will be more worried about gerrymandering about how the new election love will benefit them so this is. should be immediately done by. the you know the new parliament which is just waiting for the next month good to get your opinion in this thank you very much indeed a rare meeting of afghan leaders scholars and elders is happening in kabul for us talks with the taliban are likely to top the agenda such meetings are known as the loya jirga they've been held for centuries it's a way of bringing together afghanistan's many ethnic religious and tribal communities is expected that are

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when on election night the election commission said they couldn't continue to count the votes because they didn't have a calculator co owner of the house the one offered free drinks to anyone who stopped by to donate one his form of protest. we are educated people so we know what is right what is wrong but i think this is wrong so you are wrong this cannot happen to make up for it if you sad about my generation and then like i don't want to have kids because they are the ones those are growing up in this. kind of thing. it is the young who will eventually be responsible for thailand's future but it seems that more and more of them are giving up on their country. if you've ever visited jakarta you will know it has some of the worst traffic jams in the world while the government has finally opens the city's first subway line it's one small but significant step in alleviating some of the transportation gridlock. indonesian president djoko we doto was among those taking the inaugural ride on the country's first subway opening jakarta's north south line he called it the beginning of a new

elections to be held on the one done and that dramatically ramped up the logistical burden on the election commission and also the pressure on the various election officials i had a great deal to get done in the one on the election day and then immediately following that to my ensure that all accounting was done correctly particularly bringing together the presidential and the legislative elections a presidential elections and much more closely scrutinized for any irregularities which in monday's as it should be but the impact of that on the polling booth workers and the people further down the line who is there in their region peach elation of the votes is very strange pressure on the him even small mistakes can suddenly become big issues i can day tuesday all of undertaking manipulation of the budget when the mistakes not of deigning tali accidental or. any tainted so this is clearly taken a pretty terrible toll on a lot of a calling booth officials and the election officials so where was the oversight in all of this stan meanwhile why wasn't there a system in place to to to give him because the di

india's election commission has now taught facebook to tighten its oversight one of the things that i'velearned through working on election integrity is that it is an adversarial space where that means is that we will always see adaptation we will always see new threats emerge despite efforts by the social media giant while for the election commission to things fake news could have a big impact at the ballot box. and . the fallout from that is just as unpredictable as the indian election itself. here in germany attention is focusing on a blood test that can leave expectant mothers facing a moral dilemma test a term and whether an unborn child has delved syndrome there's pressure now for the test to be covered by public health insurance the test has been around for years the payment issue has triggered a deeper debate about society's acceptance of children with disabilities. sophia is a year and a half old she's lucky to be alive and estimated nine out of ten women in germany decide to have abortions when they find out their unborn child has down's syndrome and to sing with seven months p

it's why the election commission has been so worried about fake news hijacking the democratic process giants to clamp down. whatsapp introduced rationing, limiting to five the number of contacts users can share content with. as for facebook, it is smarting from a number of fake news and data scandals. india's election is the big test. it pulled hundreds of fake accounts and announced a war room, to crisis manage the election. we asked to see it, and were eventually told it was not in india, where the election is, but in san francisco, where facebook is. our reporter who visited it said the war room had a "cobbled together" feel to it. the fact that we set up these operations centres, that we had the right capabilities in this room, where we have threat investigates, engineers, data scientists, meant that we had the appropriate expertise sp we could respond rapidly when it mattered the most. back in india, facebook has recruited an army of independent fact checkers. the startup news mobile employs a new breed ofjourno. they are certified by the international fact checking network. ther

brought to justice to cause them to be punished if their own responsible for wrong doing cleinias election commission has for spawned a screening of a biography of india's current prime minister pm raindrop modi was due to come out ahead of the first phase of india's general election but both the commission and many in the country are concerned about the effects of. takes on the world's largest film industry. by. pm the renderer movie is a glowing interpretation of the life of india's current prime minister it's not something everyone here would agree with and what's more producers tried to release the film just before the country seven days election began this month but the election commission has delayed the release over concerns it would unduly influence voters the film is the most prominent in a recent line of political films and series critics say favor the government or pan the opposition it's. almost every month specially in these months leading up to elections we are seeing more and more political films this film journalist says the political exploitation of films used to be rare in india but

was phoning and this interview has been physician quite carefully to avoid falling afoul of election commission rules now conventional broadcast interviews are banned while voting is under way and so this interview was labeled a nonpolitical interaction so this is mostly in the b j p spotting a loophole in the election rules and just taking advantage of it absolutely me using the bollywood card to do that you see there are many mainstream outlets that are openly aligned with the b.g.p. but the prime minister is not taking any chances bollywood actors have posed for selfies with him they've tweeted in support of him in fact there was even a film a bio pic that was slated for release just as voting began with the election commission then intervened and said it would have to wait until after results are announced ok going back to social media now for a minute the meeting this week between the c.e.o. of twitter and one of the platforms best known users donald trump what were they talking. well reportedly one of their discussions was about something that trumpet tweeted just hours before the meeting

your organization, the campaign legal center, put out on the lawsuit, you say the fec, federal election commission, is the independent regulatory agency tasked with enforcing campaign laws in federal elections, but in recent years it has failed to investigate countless high-profile cases. so is the crux of your lawsuit the failure to investigate? >> well, it's both. so campaign legal center, along with giffords, filed four complaints with the fec asking it to investigate coordination between the nra and seven candidates. within 21 days, giffords and the fec have the right to sue them in court. the fec defines coordination in a number of different ways. one of those ways is through the use of a common vendor. what we found is that the nra was using a complex network of shell corporations to evade detection of violations of the fec's common bender coordination rules. if the nra and the candidates that the nra are supporting are both using the same set of vendors to produce and place ads, then the vendor can act as a conduit for the sharing of strategic information from the candidates to the nra. >>

when on election night the election commission said they couldn't continue to count the votes because they didn't have a calculator co-owners gun leo has offered free drinks to anyone who stopped by to donate one his form of protest. we are educated people so we know what is right what is wrong but it's visit wrong so you're wrong this cannot happen to me i literally feel sad about my generation that i don't want to have a kid because a the one that you're growing up it is. it is the young who will eventually be responsible for thailand's future but it seems that more and more of them are giving up on their country. and here's a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you britain's parliament is trying once again to break the deadlock over bread so lawmakers are currently voting on four alternatives to the government's divorce deal with the european union if the u.k. dissolving from the planned it will crash out of the e.u. in eleven days and algeria is invalid president lincoln says that he will step down before the end of his fourth term on april twenty eighth the ailin

died in the days following the world's biggest single day polls held earlier this month the election commission says the workers mostly died of fatigue related illnesses caused by long hours spent counting ballot papers by hand more than one hundred and fifty four million people are estimated to have voted on april seventeenth a rare meeting of afghan leaders of scholars and elders is happening in kabul for us talks with the taliban are likely to top the agenda such meetings are known as the loya jirga they've been held for centuries up to three thousand people are expected to attend talks which shuttled for four days president bush off danny is attending the loya jirgah last happened in twenty thirteen for the talks between sudanese opposition groups and the military have been postponed until monday the two sides were due to meet after announcing the formation of a joint council on saturday night and lead the country until elections are held libya's u.n. recognize governments told france to stop dealing with warlords. as voices can see to tripoli an air strike on sunday by why one of its helic

the days following the world's biggest single day polls held earlier this month the general elections commission says the workers mostly died of fatigue related illnesses caused by long hours spent counting millions of ballot papers by hand more than one hundred fifty four million people the rest a meter to a voted on april the seventeenth the elections combine the presidential vote with national and regional parliamentary ballots in order to save money. still ahead on al-jazeera the nineteen year old man accused of opening fire on a synagogue in the u.s. is charged with murder. and when politics gets possible the deepening rub between iraq and bahrain over a prominent cleric. hello there we're still got snow in the forecast for north america or over the next few days even though we're at the tail end of april we look at this satellite picture we can see one area of cloud here that's edging its way eastward that got some snow to chicago but now it's mostly rain as it works its way into the northeast but then we've also got another weather system that is dropping down from canada and this is goin

when on election night the election commission said they couldn't continue to count the votes because they didn't have a calculator co owner of a gun leo has to one offered free drinks to anyone who stopped by to donate one his form of protest. we are educated people so we know what is right what is wrong plaything does it roll roll this cannot happen to me when i feel sad about my generation and i don't want to have a kid because the one thing that you grow out of it is. kyle. it is the young who will eventually be responsible for thailand's future but it seems that more and more of them are giving up on their country. it's been a week since international forces declared the defeat of so-called islamic states last stronghold in syria and in the aftermath a number of western countries including germany are debating what to do with their nationals who are captured while fighting with or supporting us now among those captured are women who joined islamic state many claim they were forced to do so and say they carried out mainly housekeeping duties either in syria or iraq rather than act

india's election commission has delayed the screening of a biographical film of india's current prime minister the movie. was due to come out ahead of the first phase of india's general election. has more from mumbai. pm the renderer movie is a glowing interpretation of the life of india's current prime minister it's not something everyone here would agree with and what's more producers tried to release the film just before the country seven days election began this month but the election commission has delayed their release over concerns it would unduly influence voters the film is the most prominent in a recent line of political films and series critics say favor the government or pan the opposition it's. almost every month specially in these months leading up to elections we are seeing more and more political for this film journalist says the political exploitation of films used to be rare in india but that's changed everything. is in some way. by the movies and perhaps the powers that be have figured out that this is one way to get across earlier this year several bollywood heavyw

papers this is not the fall election commission they're doing a great job the thing is the parliament one to save money by organizing five elections in a single day brought a complicated difficult. unsurprisingly many people have got this new parliament should immediately repeal. election law making it more human and it should be done now out of there than nader because if it is done to be laid there you know the parliament will be more worried about gerrymandering about how the new election law will benefit them whether up next year and i was there or. i'm wayne hale reporting from tokyo japanese. imperial education in more than two hundred years. hello there we've got quite a few thunderstorms over parts of europe at the moment not so many in the west they are for spain and portugal the skies are mostly here and it's fairly warm there is more cloud as you head through the british isles and down through parts of france but here at least that big storm is cleared away say things all comma if roll the grey the thunderstorms well they here over the eastern parts and some of them are pre

of papers this is not the fall of the election commission they're doing a great job the thing is the parliament wanted to save money by organizing five elections in a single day very complicated very difficult and so unsurprisingly many people have died there is no parliament should immediately of repute be excess thing election law making it more human and it should be done now other than later because if it is done to be laid there you know the parliament will be more worried about gerrymandering about how the new election law will benefit them staying in indonesia at least seventeen people have been killed by floods and landslides following heavy rain and cool province on the island of sumatra was the hardest hit twelve thousand people have been evacuated as the rain continues on since season in indonesia typically runs from october to april just last month flooding in poppea province killed more than one hundred people. the police in india have broken up fights between voters during the fourth phase of a staggered national election it happened in the state of west bengal supporter

now india's election commission has postponed the release of a film about prime minister narendra modi on the eve of the general election the delays expected to remain in place until after voting ends next month activists journalists and members of the opposition complain the film was designed to entrance voters but on tuesday former civil servants in india had questioned the credibility of the election commission they accused it of ignoring prime minister modi is alleged violations of the code of conduct that kicks in once election days are announced voting in india begins on thursday al-jazeera is so here raman has been speaking to people about their hopes for the next government. to millions of indians the wheels of life don't stop turning and that includes those like bike route work atop one course from the state of west bengal in the east of the country he's been a rickshaw rider in new delhi for twenty years with few job opportunities moving to the big city was the only way to support his family. it would be wonderful if my son and daughter get an education that's my only wish an

up in if the election commission is being honest just post the raw scores on the website so the people the observers and political parties can work things out. believes it won enough seats to form a coalition government and take control of a parliament it was removed from in the two thousand and fourteen but suspicions are growing that it won't be allowed to particularly after a rare public rebuke from the palace which is regarded as above politics is backed by the former prime minister. who was removed in a military coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile avoiding jail for corruption. less than a week after the election thailand's king revoked toxins rule decorations that were given the services to the country citing his conviction that was handed down more than ten years ago. the final official election results may not be known for more than a month which will only allow more room for speculation and accusations a former election commissioner doesn't believe there has been wrongdoing among those who ran the vote but that doesn't mean others didn't cheat who witness a massive

indonesia's election commission says more than two hundred seventy elections staff died from overwork during the country's recent election the poll on april seventeenth was a massive logistical challenge ballots for one hundred ninety three million voters had to be distributed collected and counted by hand. to mozambique now where residents are reeling in the aftermath of the second cycling to strike the country in as many months cycling canis tore into the northern province of cabo delgado on sunday after cyclonic devastated vast swathes of central mozambique in march the government says that up to one hundred sixty thousand people have been affected while thirty five thousand homes have been damaged or destroyed heavy rains continue hampering aid efforts and threatening further destruction. of the storm the rain. was a swelling rivers and washing away houses. here in the north of mozambique nature's fury has been unleashed and the danger is far from over six hundred people died from the flooding caused by so i don't eat i six weeks ago it's not some kind of is predicted to cause twi

india's election commission has its work cut out.t 900 million eligible voters to the ballot box? you do it in seven phases and the first one begins this thursday. what are the issues on voters minds? a lot of them have to do with the economy. job creation is important to voters, india's eye employment rate is at the highest it has been sincerely 1970s. and the ruling party has been criticised for failing to add anywhere near enough jobs for the economy. farmers are demanding better prices for produce, infrastructure and systems to support the. in some cases, wave loa ns support the. in some cases, wave loans which have been dead traps. during office, the government to validate some big policies. like the goods and services tax and a surprise span of large currency notes that shook up small and medium—sized businesses. even though they had theirfair share medium—sized businesses. even though they had their fair share of problems, many voters praised the government for implementing what they say are daring policies. the opposition par

that is twice the number we had in 2014, rico, a sign from the election commission here that they wantprocess of voting is efficient and trouble—free for citizens in indonesia as possible. there have already been concerns raised in overseas voting, at least, last week, that took place last week, of some irregularities. including thousands of ballots in malaysia that have drawn complaints from the opposition. so something to look out for as this election rules on today. and as we get some quick count results laid on towards the end of the day. indeed, a very complex litigant exercise. 193 million voters tripping to the polls. the economic agenda, very important in this election. what are both candidates offering to the people to improve their welfare? well, you know, rico, indonesia's economy typically has growing at 5%. whenjoko widodo economy typically has growing at 5%. when joko widodo came economy typically has growing at 5%. whenjoko widodo came to power in 2014 he promised a 7% growth rate. that didn't happen. he did not deliver on that. he is trying to boost infrastructure spend

votes are still being tallied and they will be for some time the official results from the election commission won't be known and still may twenty second but in this country there are many organizations independent companies media companies who have a sample of polling stations that they go to jury in the election and they do so-called quick counts in the past many of these companies have been very reliable in fact if these the candidates and the general public have relied on some of those results at the moment many or in fact most of those quick count results show the income.

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when on election night the election commission said they couldn't continue to count the votes because they didn't have a calculator cohen or a gun leo has two one offered free drinks to anyone who stopped by to donate one his form of protest. we are educated people so we know what is right was it wrong but it's a visit wrong so you're wrong this cannot happen to make up for it and feel sad about my generation that i don't evolve to have a kid because a the one that is your grow up it is. it is the young who will eventually be responsible for thailand's future but it seems that more and more of them are giving up on their country. it's good you're a minor now our top story this hour britain moves one step closer to crashing out of the european union after parliament has again rejected all the alternatives for the government specs of what the new says britain last break the deadlock this week or quote face the of us. our dr thomas for the entire team here in berlin thanks so much for being with us. first cannulas from the doors grand arrives. to join the ranks on her journey back to fre

president of indonesia and officially of course because the official final results from the election commission won't be known until may twenty seconds thank you for that wayne hale forests in jakarta the weather is next and then sudan's military rulers move against two figures from the ousted regime but will it be enough to satisfy protesters also the mexicans who aren't too concerned about living in the shadow of and ok. and we've had some pretty violent thunderstorms in parts of europe recently some of the worst of those have been down in the southeast corner and this is what it looks like in greece that white there that's not snow that that's the amount of hail we've seen they came down with an awful lot of water so you can see that. shing three districts i was in many places saw the halley that there was also a lot of hail in the southern parts of italy now those violent thunderstorms are gradually edging away towards the southeast so forcing greece it is drawing up brightening up but this area of cloud still wrapping itself up through ukraine heavy downpours here further west say hey we'v

india's election commission has delayed the screening of a biography of the indian prime minister pm the run to come out ahead of the first phase of india's general election but the commission and many in the country are concerned about the effect of politics on the world's largest film industry al-jazeera as far as jimmy ill has more from mumbai. pm the renderer movie is a glowing interpretation of the life of india's current prime minister it's not something everyone here would agree with and what's more producers tried to release the film just before the country seven days election began this month but the election commission has delayed the release over concerns it would unduly influence voters the film is the most prominent in a recent line of political films and series critics say favor the government or pamby opposition it's coming out you know you almost every month specially in these months leading up to elections we are seeing more and more political science this film journalist says the political exploitation of films used to be rare in india but that's changed every life i