yesterday the electoral commission barred alexei navalny from standing because of his conviction for cow. the first formal point in the electoral campaign of vladimir putin because this is when he will be nominated as a candidate by a group of his supporters. there needs to be a minimum of 500 people who put forward his name, and then he needs to ta ke forward his name, and then he needs to take those nominations forward to the electoral commission. whilst it might bea the electoral commission. whilst it might be a foregone conclusion for him, it wasn't the case for one of his key potential contenders, alexei navalny, who tried to do exactly the same in the last couple of days and was yesterday rejected by the electoral commission. that is significant because alexei navalny claims he is the only real opponent to vladimir putin, the only serious critic, and a man with serious sport across the country who could potentially at least give him a run for his money on the ballot paper. but he will not be allowed to take pa rt but he will not be allowed to take part in the election. he has be

electoral observation mission they have here. and i understand that right now thee speak, we have president of the commission speaking from brusselsbout this. and i think they will come out strongly stating that the electoral process was plagued by fraud. amy: we're going to continue to cover this tomorrow on [captioning made possible by democracy now!] unfold.y now! as events shutting commission down the vote for a period when it was announced. was fivenasralla percentage points ahead. he is in washington now. rudolfo pastor, spokesperson for the alliance against the dictatorship. allan nairn, independent journalist, on the streets from tegucigalpa. and professor dana frank. did republican lawmakers include a last-minute provision in the tax plan to personally enrich tennessee senator corker in order to secure his support for the tax bill? stay with us. amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn now to the republicans plan to overhaul the u.s. tax code to shower billions of dollars in tax cuts upon major corporations that appears to be a step closer to passing. histor corker

money to those who joined the electoral commission during its work. without any waste of time congress and no you waiting with bated breath. their brief statistical information with regard to their poaching in this court has their adopted credentials icon friends. or thousands have been seven six and in this instance come. with this crisis round of voting we had a total of four thousand seven hundred eighty votes cast giving us and ninety nine percent. sure that posting. come here is i'm going to keep you the results. in the order of. how the names appeared on the planet. and i would beg. you to keep me the opportunity to finish the state's position people can start separating i will start with the sport products for the position of deputy president. we had three scored by adults and four abstentions and the distribution of both. is a supporters. brayton courses on earth i mean is received. true true sixwire. and grades from a course. to four four zero i keep reading i want to bring silver grandma closer to the new president i made an issue now i see

the eu came out last night supporting t the electoral commission.ery embarrassingly pretty much repeating exactly what the honduran government said. the eu has a long history like the united dates of supporting one orlando's government. the other place to look is the u.s. congress. there have been strong voices about the appearance of major fraud. there have been very strong voices condemning the repression. especially commerce woman should cows be in congress member keith ellison. there are than 68 members of congress that have said cut police and military aid going into the elections. senator leahy incident or read, senator merkley and many others in the senate have expressed concern about potential fraud and concern about the state security forces. we also want to pay attention this congressional voice pushing back against the state department. remember that congress controls the purse strings and u.s. money is funding the state sececurity forces. the u.s. -- the state department, the u.s. state department that has been continuing lee c celebrati

but the electoral commission said it is a legality, a formality and he has now been barred., he wants people to stay away from the election in russia to deny mr putin any legitimacy and he says this vote without him is no vote at all. sarah, thank you. millions of shoppers across the country are hitting the high street today, for the traditional boxing day sales. analysts at barclaycard suggest one in three of us will head to the shops today in search ofa bargain. but with the rise of discount deals for black friday, and more of us shopping online, has the post—christmas shopping spree lost some of its appeal? james waterhouse reports. no camping, no stampedes. bell tolls. but there was at least a bell for the boxing day sale faithful in london this morning. in selfridge's, one of britain's oldest store names, you can get your hands on almost anything. perfumes, make—up, clothing and, of course, shoes. 50% off prada shoes. that's really good. £250 saving. £215 saving. we do love shopping! we like bargains more than full price stuff. they are normally 480, i got them for 230.

the electoral commission is questioning whether momentum really did stay inside those limits.ve been some accounting errors. they say they will cooperate fully with the investigation, but they believe this is something that can be resolved. 0ur correspondent ian watson. former british soldier nick dunn, one of the so—called chennai six, has arrived back in the uk, after more than four years after being jailed in india on weapons charges. mr dunn along with five other british men, had been guards on a ship to combat piracy in the indian ocean, but were jailed in october 2013 after being charged with carrying unlicensed firearms and ammunition. after years of campaigning, they won an appeal against their convictions last week and were given permission to leave india. well our correspondent fiona trott was at the airport when he arrived well, here he is, nick dunn. finally back home afterfour well, here he is, nick dunn. finally back home after four years in an indian prison. here he is at newcastle airport, hugging his sister lisa. his mother margaret, he is hugging. hasn't seen

forformal this session here to the electoral commission for formal approval.of then, if you like, the next stage of the race begins. he has to gallop 300,000 signatures from across butter to support his candidacy. but it isa butter to support his candidacy. but it is a pretty much forgone conclusion. give the most popular politician here in russia and doesn't expect to have any real obstacles doesn't expect to have any real o bsta cles o n doesn't expect to have any real obstacles on the reraise to the kremlin. millions of shoppers across the country are hitting the high street today, for the traditional boxing day sales. analysts at barclaycard suggest one in three of us will head to the shops today in search ofa bargain. but with the rise of discount deals for black friday, and more of us shopping online, has the post—christmas shopping spree lost some of its appeal? james waterhouse reports. no camping, no stampedes. bell tolls. but there was at least a bell for the boxing day sale faithful in london this morning. in selfridge's, one of britain's oldest sto

massive protests erupted after the government-controlled electoral commission stopped tallying votes when the count showed nasralla ahead. we'll speak with former honduran president manuel zelaya, was ousted in a 2009 u.s.-backed coup. he now heads the opposition libre party, part of the coalition, alliance against the dictatorship. so democracy here. we are suffering repression. people are being persecuted. is no duethere process. there is nothing. , thenthe coup d'etat changed all of the laws. amy: president zelaya in a democracy now! exclusive. then, "the dangerous case of donald trump: psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president." we will speak with forensic lee,iatrist dr. brandy organizer of the yale duty to warn conference. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in california, nearly 200,000 people have been forced to evacuate as drought-fueled wildfires tear across southern california. climate experts say the intensity of the winter blazes is linked to climate change. the fires cause

returned to honduras after days of violence following the disputed presidential election the electoral commission is yet to declare a winner president one orlando hernandez narrowly ahead of opposition candidate. three people have died in fighting between opposition supporters and security forces. india's opened a new trade route to afghanistan that bypasses pakistan by using an iranian port the first phase of the port in iran was inaugurated on sunday it links india to afghanistan and central asia pakistan denies transit access for trade cargo. it's al jazeera world now. nick. well. but i love moa. fish. fur. bad. so. who thought. i mean that in my. jack today. i buy stuff. i don't know sad i'm a. shell of. that. dynamite seth and. how when i had. a solid to live in a small fish about that's a leafy she left. and. i had. i have not bought it and i had tam. itself but had it and i had. and i love allow me to add you now but dad now. clinton i had. one but. i'm not i'm not because and. also alana mclean is a. odd what. about marshall. out of hell of us all live a day. show we. show how many. no on

minutes after the electoral commission announced the result, hundreds of people celebrated in front of the building. and then, across the city, you could hear the sound of jubilation, honking horns. it has been 12 years of waiting. it is going to go on until tomorrow morning. this is the first democratic transition in 70 yea rs. first democratic transition in 70 years. how ground—breaking? first democratic transition in 70 years. how ground—breaking ?m first democratic transition in 70 years. how ground-breaking? it is very ground—breaking. liberia is the old est very ground—breaking. liberia is the oldest republic. first time since 1944, oldest republic. first time since 19114, democratic handover. even the last one was questioned. it was not universal. technically speaking, in the real sense, some people argue this is the first time it is happening. watershed. 12 years ago, the first female elected president, and now an ex footballer. liberia is proud. any concerns about the transition, from being a well known footballer — to leadership? transition, from being a well known footballer

for a comment on that warning it told as it had responded fully to all the inquiries of the electoral commission independent political commentator as i'm gary thinks that all the inquiries into alleged russian meddling have reached a point of absurdity to sign of desperation isn't it with someone let's say wants to go to a very nice restaurant in the no tables if the guy is really desperate to get in there can you check again or are you sure you don't have any tables it really is just that ridiculous they want to prolong and prolong and on scandal when frankly all they need to do is look at the facebook ads it's all about for a public record and yes the fingers might get a bit sore scrolling down through the post but it doesn't take it you don't need to be some sort of super james bond in order to conduct this it really comes down to irresponsible corporate governance irresponsible political governance and a lack of transparency on both sides and in order to stir hoodwink the public about this of this sort of back scratching competition which occasionally draws blood they need a distraction it's

s this month a much narrower inquiry by the electoral commission so he says that they're basically not playing ball and he's threatening to sanction them including giving advice to companies not to use facebook and twitter as an advertising platform so putting pressure on them to go along with this politically motivated investigation now we've spoken to facebook they've told us. they are closely cooperating with the electoral electoral committee the electoral commission we are still waiting to hear from twitter as it goes now this is very similar to what we're hearing in the u.k. what's happening in the us same types of inquiries looking into alleged russian interference only with regard to the us presidential election and similar messages slamming messages coming from u.s. senator mark warner i was concerned at first that some of the social media platform companies did not take this threat seriously enough i believe they are recognizing that threat now they've provided us with information of course these social media giants they've continuously stressed that the number of ads in the r

reporter: it has been wild celebrations literally two minutes after the electoral commission chairman announced the result. hundreds of people thronged in front of the election building, and from then on, central monrovia, across the city, we could hear the reverberating sound of jubilation, the honking of car horns. it has been 12 years of waiting for george weah and his supporters, the celebration will go on till tomorrow morning. sharanjit: this is liberia's first democratic transition in more than 70 years. tell us how groundbreaking is that in itself. reporter: this is very groundbreaking. liberia is the oldest independent republic in africa. this is the first time since 1944 that there will be a democratic handover of power. even the last one has been questioned because it was not universal suffrage. technically speaking, in the real sense of universal suffrage, first time in this country. that is a watershed. just 12 years ago they voted for the first female president on the continent of africa, and now the first ex-footballer as head of state. it is something liberian's are ve

and that the information that they are handing over is the same that they handed over to the electoral commission earlier this month and we can look at some of the numbers of come forward facebook for example handing over information which says that story russian ads were taken out with only two hundred views or two hundred people viewing those ads and the total cost of ninety seven cents spent on the damian collins saying that no work has been done by facebook to look for other fake accounts and twitter as well handing over information saying that only six tweets from r.t. accounts at a cost of a thousand dollars again mr collins saying that twitter information that they've shared is completely inadequate now we've spoken to facebook they've told us that they are closely cooperating with the electoral committee but that they don't have any evidence thus far of russian actors attempting to influence the brig's that vote but this all is very similar to the types of inquiries we've been seeing in the us and looking into the presidential election there and again alleged russian interference and we'v

compare to what we saw in october and the electoral commission needs to be commended for that as wellly, the local political parties have an important role to play in that. that's correct. we noted in all of the polling centres we visited that the two parties that we re we visited that the two parties that were in competition had polling agents, representatives of the candidates and parties, watching the polls from beginning to end. all through the voting as well is during the tabulation of election results. that has contributed to the confidence that the people of liberia have seen thus far. do you think the fact that the margin of victory is so large is helping how voters look at this vote? yes, that's one of the factors but also the political leaders of liberia on both sides have come to the recognition that it's important to them to send a clear message to their supporters that liberians want peace, librarians are committed to peaceful elections and it will never be on anybody‘s interest to disrupt what is clearly the chosen will of the liberian people. —— liberians. what kind of

asked to report on evidence of russian meddling now we don't know what twitter said to the electoral commission because it's chosen not to make its findings public but about a month ago there were various claims in the british media which were backed up by various rigorous pieces of research but the research findings didn't match up with the headlines that they were reported under so in one case there was a database that was examined of more than twenty two million tweets and that was cross-reference with russian accounts that were again found to be active during the u.s. election campaign and out of those twenty two million only four hundred tweets were found to be from russian accounts about it and then similarly there was another piece of research which showed that seventy eight percent of tweets from russian accounts about bret's it were tweeted after the vote had already taken place google we mentioned as well google said that it had found no evidence of russian interference in the backseat referendum ok bring us right up to date on that aspect of things or to slow response live and direct

the central electoral commission deemed him ineligible because of the corruption conviction which heotivated. translation: it is not about me, it is about the fact that a candidate is needed who will finally come to the election and speak openly about everything that happens in our country now, who will describe our reality honestly. absence of prospects, poverty. i did that and that is why you don't want to let me take part in the election. following the ban, alexei navalny called on his supporters to boycott the election. however polls show president vladimir putin is on course for a comfortable re—election, meaning he will remain in powerfor another six years, until 202a. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. protests have erupted in peru, over the president's decision to grant a medical pardon to the jailed former president alberto fujimori. hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets for a second day, accusing president kuczynski of making a deal with the opposition, to avoid his own impeachment. fujimori was serving a 25 year sentence for human right

protest erected last week when the government controlled electoral commission stopped telling votes from november 26 election and after the count showed opposition candidate salvador salvador nasrallala ahd by more than five percentage points. it now shows that hernandez has pulled up had the pulled ahead votes9.9 percent of the tallied. they will not announce a winner in order to allow the filing of challenges and appeals. this comes as national's servers are calling on the wonders electoral commission, controlled by president hernandez, to carry out a recount. the organization of american states and the european union have supported nasralla's demands for a recount. this is marisa matias, head of the european union mission. >> the cap has not yet finished. the process is far from over. that is to say there is still some time for the presidential candidate and for the parties to put forward their appeals, the challenges. this should be done by the supreme electoral tribunal. amy: this comes as the u.s. embassy said in a statement that it was "pleased honduran election authorities comple

choose days presidential runoff with more than ninety eight percent of the vote now counted the electoral commission says we have secured sixty one point five percent of the vote he will succeed ellen johnson sirleaf when he becomes president next month this will be the first democratic transition of power in the west african nation in seventy three yes ma'am going to joins us from liberia's capital monrovia and what has been the reaction that these provisional results mohammed. well madame of course the supporters of george aware aha p. and they've been thinking about holding a victory party the in the cup we're told will grow via but they've been asked not to do that because the final results will be released to morrow these are provisional results although again where hans an unassailable lead over he's contend the other the other candidate of walker the man who's been prez vice president in liberia for the past four years old way of course very popular with the youth of this country who for up to sixty past cent of the population of this country there have been scenes of jubilation in some of th

return to honduras off the days of violence following the disputed presidential election the electoral commission has yet to declare a winner with the president on all under one hundred narrowly ahead of opposition kind of. three people have died in fighting between opposition supporters and security forces security forces have been given extra powers to stop them arrest nighttime curfew is in place for ten days. you are getting it restricts you but in the end it was a good measure to take i think as a very wise decision for the wellbeing of. what they need to resolve this situation as soon as possible we can't continue like this you know going to you know i think if he was good because that way there would not be any crisis in the country and one must respect the confusion because really what is happening in a country is a terrible crisis when is enough from monrovia apolo has more from to. the night hours have closed in the city of they were we are now in a nationwide curfew and things have quieted down especially compared to just yesterday when riots broke out and demonstrators clashed with se

it comes a day after the electoral commission barred opposition leader, alexei navalny, from standingent almost 18 years in power. he's a man familiar with the grand entrance. but on this occasion, vladimir putin is expected to not even turn up to his own nomination event. some have read into that decision as a sign of confidence, but the kremlin says the russian president has a prior engagement. today marks the official launch of mr putin's presidential campaign. he's running as an independent, and has until the end of january to collect 300,000 signatures to register his bid. there's little doubt the president will be re—elected. there are no strong rivals now that anti—corru ption campaigner alexei navalny has been formally disqualified. the central electoral commission deemed mr navalny ineligible because of a corruption conviction, which he says is politically motivated. translation: it's not about me. it is about the fact that a candidate is needed who will finally come to the election and speak openly about everything that happens in our country now, who will describe our reali

clashes left three people dead in fighting between opposition supporters and security forces electoral commission is yet to declare a winner as of now president won a landowner and as is narrowly ahead of the opposition's candidate salvador his supporters say some of the results have been manipulated and night time curfew has been opposed across the country and about republic. protesters made their way across the city of taking on sunday answering a call by opposition leaders who have asked supporters across the country to march there are thousands of people on the streets of the city demanding that the national elections commission be forthcoming with the decision they're also calling for the president. to step down the. demonstrators express a general mistrust of the national elections commission making the job of international observers all the more valuable. than we won the recount to be fair no matter who wins we will accept it but not with election fraud. we want to allow him to be president we want to wait he said. we want to remove this repressive government the people of honduras have wo

have restored calm after days of violence following the disputed presidential election the electoral commission is yet to declare a winner with president one a lot of the hundreds ahead of opposition candidates are those of the top stair stories stay with us witness is next. in jakarta school students are taking up weapons to fight in the street. to investigate this violent phenomenon. at this time on al-jazeera. go.

have restored calm after days of violence following the disputed presidential election the electoral commission is yet to declare a winner with president juan orlando hernandez ahead of opposition candidates. three people have died during opposition protests the latest was a nineteen year old woman witnesses say she was shot by soldiers in the capital on saturday curacy forces have been given extra powers to stop the unrest. hello of course from the honduran capital. there are thousands of protesters on the streets right now people as you can hear chanting out president one orlando . to give you a sense of how large this demonstration is. behind me talking about several thousand people that are marching on the streets of tehran but what people have been telling me is what they write this story and transparent elections they've lost confidence in the national election commission which after a week since the general election has still not managed to provide an alchemy of these elections this demonstration was organized by members of the opposition party but the people that we've spoken to come fr

restored calm after days of violence following the disputed presidential election there the electoral commission is yet to the clear winner with the president one orlando at nine days ahead of opposition candidate salvador nasrallah three people have died during opposition protests the latest was a nineteen year old woman with this is say she was shot by soldiers in the capital on saturday the security forces have been given extra powers to stop the unrest manuel republic reports now from the honduran capital. we are as close as people are allowed to get to the national elections commission waiting to hear any word on a final decision of this partly contested presidential election in honduras now the military has sectioned off this part of the road not allowing anything other than pedestrian traffic and military personnel to move through now. as the head of the elections commission said on friday that representatives from both parties along with international lection observers would be present during the special recount process the opposition however has failed to attend and there's really no si

the electoral commission has a t.v. personality kissing your subject to run against mr putin in next year's elections is nominated by the group civil initiative she's the daughter of mr putin's former mentor and a totally subject the first elected mayor of st petersburg but critics say her decision to run plays into the hands of the kremlin by creating an artificial contest. it's been ten years exactly since pakistan's first and only female prime minister was assassinated benazir bhutto was at a campaign rally when she was shot and killed after a suicide bomber detonated explosives as more. tens of thousands of people are coming from across pakistan and from the religion is scattered across the province of saying this has always been the strongest of the board of family the pakistan people's party still has the provincial government there and today of course they will be commemorating the tenth anniversary of benazir board over the very large gathering we have seen tens of thousands of people coming together for the box

to africa now in liberia is the electoral commission has said the presidential runoff vote for december twenty six x. football star george where faces vice president joseph the of the ruling unity party in the runoff of various supreme court postponed the poll a day before it was scheduled last month over allegations of voter fraud nobel peace prize laureates president ellen johnson sirleaf is stepping down after twelve years in zero six. now the leaders of saudi arabia and jordan have met in riyadh to discuss donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital the meeting comes a day ahead of the summit of muslim leaders called by turkey's president in a sample but it's unclear if sound eurabia will send its representative to that meeting. and on the ground it's been almost a week of demonstrations in the occupied palestinian territories israeli forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters who pelted stones in ramallah and bethlehem dozens of palestinians have been injured in confrontations with israeli forces since last week and israeli arabs protested outside

the the electoral commission in malawi announced that there had been fraud and that they are going to ask to seek for the counting and i see if that is the the kids then i think malawians disease. of their choice i am calling for iran but i am not a kind of the even if there were had been a run i was not going to run going to run again no that is not up to me i cannot of course it is soft money and also not ruling it out you might run again if they want me to run again not run again but it's not a priority for me it doesn't matter. i believe that you and your city your people you don't have to be into that house you can serve your people at any level at any rate let's talk about the economy and poverty issues you've made a lot of contributions on since leaving office for the club to madrid and others when you came to power in twenty twelve you inherited a shock to the economy no doubt about one of your first moves as president was tech cept the i.m.f. led recovery measures that your predecessor had resisted which included a forty nine percent devaluation of the malawian currency a mea

from tuesday's presidential runoff with more than ninety eight percent of the vote counted electoral commission says with secured sixty one point five percent of the vote he will succeed ellen johnson sirleaf when he becomes president next month it will be the first democratic transition of power in the west african nation in seventy three years while going to doe has more from the capital monrovia. supporters of georgia where good to the news of his victory with celebrations song and dance on the streets of monrovia he himself where broke down in tears and he could be seen been called fulton by his running mate you will fail who is a former wife of the former leader of this country charles taylor who is currently serving a fifty year sentence in the united kingdom for crimes against humanity committed in neighboring sierra leone for georgia where the supporters he said we've come true some of them told us about this trouble well they call us toggled they started in two thousand and two house warm fruits tonight with the victory in the elections for george to where it's not known whether the lo

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the central electoral commission says he's ineligible, because of a disputed corruption conviction, whichys is politically motivated. he's urged his supporters to boycott the vote in march. translation: it would exclude millions from the political system itself, because it won't allow them to take part in the election in any way, and this is what your decision is about. a bus has ploughed into an underpass near a moscow train station killing at least four people and injuring a number of others. the bus swerved off one of the russian capital's busiest roads, close to the slavyansky boulevard metro station this morning. the driver has been arrested by police. the police watchdog is investigating after a man died when the car in which he was a passenger crashed, as it was being pursued by officers. the collision happened early this morning in liverpool. a man was arrested at the scene. forces must refer cases that involve a death after police contact to the watchdog. ten people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack close to afg hanistan‘s national intelligence agency in the capital, kabu

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the central electoral commission deemed him ineligible because of the corruption conviction which heically motivated. translation: which he says is politically motivated. translatiosz which he says is politically motivated. translation: it is not about me, it is about the fact that about me, it is about the fact that a candidate is needed who will finally come to the election and speak openly about everything that happens in our country now, who will describe our reality honestly. absence of prospects, poverty. i did that and that is why you don't want to let me take part in the election. following the ban, alexei navalny called on his supporters to boycott the election. however polls show president vladimir putin is on course for a comfortable re—election, meaning he will remain in powerfor another six re—election, meaning he will remain in power for another six years, until 202a. pope francis has called for an end to the suffering of children and for peace in the middle east. christmas celebrations in bethlehem have been quieter than usual, after the violent unrest sparked by presi

counting the votes in polling stations more than five thousand of them across the country the electoral commission has two weeks within which to declare the results but officials say they only need four more days before they declare the results if the results of the fuss around anything to go by former international football adored where the lead he has the advantage over he's. just a current vice president. told where got forty eight percent of the vote cost them but since then they have been about eighteen also coming the two do not make it to the second round and some of them have bucked just of waka and this is what just a walk away is bunking. dog well also has the advantage of getting the support of the incumbent president ellen johnson sirleaf whichever way it goes who ever wins this election will inherit so many challenges liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world and the house must have corruption allegations as well as joblessness among its young people peruse former president herbert of regime mori has asked for forgiveness from peruvians from the bottom of his heart thousand

cheese days presidential runoff wave more than ninety eight percent of the vote counted the electoral commission says we have secured sixty one point five percent of the light i'm going to die has the latest from the capital monrovia. the supporters of georgia way are aha p. and they've been thinking about holding a victory party the in the cup we're told will grow via but they've been asked to do it because the final results will be released to moralise a provisional result of war again where house on a saleable lead over he's contend is the other the other candidate joseph walker the man who's been prez vice president in liberia for the past hold three years old way of course very hopeful with the youth of this country whom for up to six the parson of the fashion of this country they have been seen sold tribulation in some of the streets but nothing as much as what the supporters of george will have been planning it's as good as done that now where he's set to become the next president of liberia who will take over from ellen johnson sirleaf in mid january peace is the main thing liberians wan