nigeria's presidential election postponed for a week electoral commission made the announcement justhours before polling booths would you to open. and the man who played his left bruno god has died at the age of seventy seven it claimed swiss x. it was considered one of the most important stars of german language cinema. hello and welcome to the program i knew cooper's mckinnon to our allies but heading in very different directions that's how it looks off to contrast in speeches by germany's chancellor angela merkel and the u.s. vice president mike pence at the munich security conference muckle made a plea for multilateralism for nations to work together to security but pence criticized the u.s. as allies accusing the europeans of undermining sanctions against iran has some of what they said starting with chancellor merkel. multilateralism may be complicated but it's better than simply staying home alone and i think that is exactly the right answer to the motto of this great puzzle who will pick up the pieces we only all of us together thank you thank. our chief political corresponde

news live from the lead nigeria's presidential election postponed for a week the electoral commission made the announcement in the middle of the night just hours before polling booths were due to open will take a look at what's next in nigeria also or something very good for virtual invasion purposes drugs. traffickers. and gangs one of the u.s. president donald trump declares a national emergency along with the u.s. border with mexico it means he'll be able to get the money he wants to build a border wall but he'll face legal battles from the opposition democrats. and as the birdland film festival draws to a close we'll take a look at some of the favorite films found seems to win the silver and gold in the . l a and the very warm welcome i'm his mckinnon nigerians was supposed to be heading to the polls at this hour to elect a new president it was expected to be a tight race between president mohammed do bihari and the main opposition candidate businessman and skilled one vice president of a backup but in a shock move the vote was postponed just a few hours ago the chairman of the in

nigeria's presidential election postponed for a week the electoral commission made the announcement just hours the full polling booths would you tell open. and i've been a very warm welcome to the program i'm on your trip as mckinnon and ellen germany's chancellor angela merkel has made a plea for multilateralism in a world dominated by three superpowers speaking at the annual munich security conference she warns that international political structures were falling apart we cannot simply break them down she said in an apparent reference to u.s. president donald trump let's have a listen now to some of what michael had to say. but it's better than simply staying home alone and i think not is exactly the right answer to the motto of the great puzzle who will pick up the pieces we only all of us together thank you. all right to break down now what michael had to say i'm joined by our political correspondent for million. start with you we heard knuckle talking about the transatlantic relationship talking about the importance of talking multi-lateralism did she make a step towards the u.s. wi

before the start of the pol the electoral commission the election voters will have to wait till next weekend to. have expressed disappointment international election observers are worried. well i think there are concerns as international community as international observers is the one hand that the postponement happened so late in the process that happened just hours before the polls were to open people were moving towards the polls at the time. and. i think it's very disruptive in that sense if they knew they couldn't do it they should have given people more of a heads up earlier and build trust in the process. now let's talk some more about this with our correspondent funny flush on. i don't funny good to have you with us so this is the deal many nigerians traveled for long hours to the cities all states just to cost only to be told it's no longer happening what's the mood like funny. right very very mixed to say so because some people take a look at this hugh laurie the irony saying this is not just by the way one of the sentences that people keep saying is something does not work

electoral commission said anything more than we already know to calm down the anger and disappointment over voters. all right apart from repeatedly saying that this is due to the just ticks through to the weather to certain sensitive documents ballot papers could not be delivered to certain regions in nigeria also i've heard members of the national election national call it the story of the electoral commission seeing some sort of a finger pointing actually two different parties that they did not deliver the candidates on time that have to be printed on those documents that again have to be delivered to all over now geria so there is a finger pointing but not only from i only see two parties also in between parties and i've met a woman a young lady a young mother and a lawyer in a house alone who says people don't expect anything from politicians anyway but rather try to be the change yourself now this is how she is doing it let's have a watch. lawyer nona much is bringing her message to this here so on but she's not campaigning for herself or any politicians rather she wants nigerians

the chairman of the independent national electoral commission made the announcement. and so how are nigerians reacting to the last minute postponement correspondent adrian creech was out on the streets of a somewhat deserted lagos' to find out almost empty streets in the center of lagos that's a very rare thing to see in the city of almost twenty million people but today the elections were scheduled in just cancelled five hours before offices schools businesses everything still remains closed and many people are disappointed that the elections were postponed. i'm sad i'm angry i'm annoyed. and. i'm disappointed. that all those words that's how i'm feeling today because you wake up. all excited about going to food are you we call. on you going to your social media i know you see what you see is it has been postponed people have a lot of things to do to d. which we can know what. you say you should from now to ministry to prove to be disappointed to get. the electoral commission said they had to postpone the elections due to operational and logistical reasons without go

evo ting in his hometown of daraa in the northeast the country's electoral commission blamed logistical problems for the week long delay. that led to accusations that the two main parties tried to manipulate the vote heightening tensions between rival supporters these boiled over on friday when supporters of bihari and of his closest rival at abu bakar clashed leaving two people dead. analysts say the election will be tight alongside widespread corruption and a lackluster economy a bloody insurgency by the jihadist group boko haram caused biharis popularity to slide in a refugee camp in the northern city of yola those displaced by the insurgents are fed up with the government but many won't be able to vote for change. my voters card was burned when we were chased by a vocal around the entire village was torched we couldn't salvage anything and we had to flee for our lives if i had a card i would have voted the last elections held in twenty fifteen were postponed a full six weeks they resulted in good luck jonathan becoming the first incumbent president to be voted out of power. will hop

this is bbc news, the headlines: nigeria's electoral commission has postponed the presidential poll bywasn't feasible to proceed as scheduled for logistical reasons but the delay was necessary to ensure a free and fair vote. the us president donald trump has declared a national emergency in an attempt to bypass congress and secure funding for his mexican border wall. democrat leaders have described it as "a gross abuse of power" and announced an immediate investigation into the declaration, which they say violates the constitution. relatives of shamima begum, the pregnant teenagerfrom london who went to syria to join the islamic state group, have asked the government to help them bring her home. britain's home secretary, sajid javid, has made it clear he'll try to prevent the return of people who've supported terrorist organisations.

swelling but nothing concrete came through, and at the last that it was announced that the electoral commissionelectra commission did not give many details, he said there was logistical issues out of his control and they were unable to overcome them, and for that reason they had to postpone the elections. there we re to postpone the elections. there were issues in the weeks coming up to the elections, polling units had been set on fire, card readers were also set on fire. this may have contributed to the reasons for the postponement, but tonight the chairman was not able to tell us anything, he said he would update the nigerian people later on saturday. it is africa's largest democracy, have you seen anything like this before in the country's history, to compare cancelling the boat literally hours before it is set to go ahead? unfortunately nigeria is no stranger to postponements, in 2015 the vote had been postponed although this was done several weeks before the day of the elections, but in 2011 the postponement came at the very last minute actually, the day of the vote itself, and actually wa

that was the chair of the nigerian electoral commission.film downfall — has died at the age of 77. it's believed he'd been suffering from cancer. he collaborated with some of the world's leading film—makers, including germany's wim wenders and the american director, jonathan demme. the bbc‘s tim allman looks back at his life and career. hitler's bunker, the dying days of world war ii, and the performance that showcased the power and talent of bruno ganz. this scene would go on to inspire thousands of internet parodies, but that shouldn't detract from what was a raw depiction of fury, delusion, and impending doom. despite winning numerous awards, ganz himself later admitted he was haunted by the role, portraying a madman, but a madman who was still human. i can't see you, but i know you're here. he was nothing if not versatile, though, here playing an angel who chooses to become mortal in wim wenders's wings of desire. this time, he was displaying sensitivity, vulnerability and compassion. tributes were soon paid to the swiss actor. germany'

however, the electoral commission insists the delay is for logistical reasons.is in the capital abuja. the electoral commission has blamed operational reasons, logistics, logistic problems for them changing their minds and putting off or postponing the vote. they said they had problems with bad weather when it came to flying a lot of the voting material across the country and so they had to resort to long haul road transport which was part of the problem. they also pointed out the use of sabotage where some of the offices around the country were attacked and set on fire. but, you know, all the time they had been saying that all was fine and they were going to go ahead with the election and that none of these problems were grave enough to affect the vote and then with a few hours to go, they changed their minds. a lot of people are saying there must be something else. but the head of the electoral commission, mahmood yakubu, insists that these were the main problems. the one week adjustment was a painful one for inec but necessary in the overall interests of our

live from doha also coming up supporters of nigeria's president celebrate but the country's electoral commission says the counting still has a way to go. we're just hours away from the vietnam summits between u.s. president donald trump and north korea's leader kim jong un. and the un security council meets on the venezuela crisis with well as divided again. we begin with breaking news from washington where the democratic led house of representatives has voted to block president donald trump's declaration of a national emergency along the us mexico border let's go straight to patty called pain in washington d.c. for us patty this was a bipartisan vote in the house. kind of bipartisan thirteen republicans broke from the president in voted that this was in fact not a national emergency let's just take a step back and remember what happened as u.s. president donald trump wanted a border wall congress wouldn't give him the money you shut down the government for the longest time in american history more than thirty days then he basically baulked and he said ok fine assign the bill but i'm going to de

you say you will delay show from now to this streak to prove to be disappointed the greek electoral commission said they had to postpone the elections due to operational and logistical reasons without going into further details but we know that several offices of the electoral commissions were set ablaze in the last days and weeks voters' i.d.'s burned as well as the copper readers that were necessary for the elections to take place despite the frustration in many places nigerian fluting here in lagos many people also trying to make the best out of their day and just have some fun. all right some news now and friday so buying munich move within two points of league leaders for us to dortmund after they sealed eight three two come from behind win against the varian neighbors oxburgh the title holders got up to a nightmare start conceding after just eight seconds the fastest own goal in bundesliga history but they fought back to grab all three points david hitting the winner early in to say. and half the victory now puts pressure on rivals to opponent who play on monday. the acclaimed swiss acto

official of the electoral commission was porter saying the sub. is a danger to the democracy of nigeria had been committed and there was no way the elections would have been held today and some grisly news in the north of the country mohammed reports a dozens of people including many children have been killed in could do mistake what more do you know. well it tells us his country would not know who actually cut it out this up hark in but what we know is that the north is a security area where the book has been very much active and it's one of the constants the electoral commission and extension of the government hide. over holding the elections of this time book while on my book methods are sick of that it is that against the holding of the elections of course they are. fighting the government or do not want to see any of its activities including the elections take place in their country but hundreds of thousands of security personnel have been deployed across the country to ensure that the elections take place small early. so far now all we know

and that's why we wait for the electoral commission to make pronouncements on some some of the some elections. to watch and a vote on saturday and we had about a hundred and ten critical incidents and by the end of polls we had over six hundred critical incidents really cut across different infractions on the electoral law and so they could potentially undermine the integrity of the elections but would wait for the electoral commission to communicate to one jans how these has impacted on the process but we have a coalition has been disrupted we don't expect the electoral commission to declare any results in the space sampson your group iago is one of the leading civil society groups he has already passed comment on this election overall declaring it or describing it not the election nigerians expected nor the election nigerians this is do you feel that this is likely to have been a credible process well. the collision is ongoing and we will wait until this coalition process and because it's part of the elections what we are identifying in our statement is there are some gaps in this process t

now, the independent national electoral commission has not made a formal announcement yet.rding to our statistics, though, residents muhammadu buhari has won 19 of the country's 36 states. his main opponent, atiku abubakar, has won 18 of those states. but president muhammadu buhari also has a commanding lead of almost 4 million votes. now, he has a lot of work ahead of him. he will have to tackle corruption, as he has promised to do here in nigeria. the economy is barely out of a recession. then there is the matter of insecurity across the country. boko haram in the north—east of the country. clashes between hersdmen who are looking for pasture for their cows, and farmers whose farms these cows destroy across the middle belt of nigeria. and then, the restive youth in the oil—rich niger delta demanding a greater share of the region's oil wealth. from what we can tell, president buhari has won a second term in office and it looks like he will be continuing for another four years. and just a moment ago nigeria's electoral commission formerly announced that incumbent president

but the head of the electoral commission, mahmood yakubu, insists that these were the main problems.but necessary in the overall interest of our democracy. 0ur decision is entirely taken by the commission. it has nothing to do with security, nothing to do with political influence, nothing to do with availability of resources. a memorial service has taken place in argentina for the football player emiliano sala, who died in a plane crash last month. the 28—year—old was killed two days after signing for cardiff city when his plane came down in the english channel. from progreso, natalio cosoy reports. applause. emiliano sala's body leaves the grounds of his childhood football club, san martin de progreso, in central argentina. his relatives, friends and neighbours came to say goodbye to the local hero at a private funeral. translation: he never forgot his roots, and that means people have a very fond memory of the kid, of emiliano. sala spent his early years developing his football skills here. he left, aged 14, to pursue bigger opportunities. he was flying from france to cardiff when

about this time around is the shop that were given before the postponement was announced the electoral commission made the announcement just three hours to the time the polling stations were expected to all. voters reacted with a mixture of anger frustration and was initially with some describing the electoral body as a disgrace this is the height of incompetence the contrie past never experienced this that election could be called on the election. asax let's look look look what do you mean to record of immediately this morning we're finding out that yeah the election as record of who does that is very disappointing very servants no one really shone for him as an engineer i think so embarrassed. nigeria's two main political parties the ruling all progressives congress a.p.c. and the peoples democratic party p.d.p. swiftly condemned the delay and accused each other of trying to manipulate the. present moment to come an appeal to nigerians to refrain from civil disorder the presidential and parliamentary votes have been is scheduled for saturday twenty third for. governorship state assembly and loc

the electoral commission hasn't yet come down one way oi’ the electoral commission hasn't yet come down to come in within the next 48 hours, roughly. at the moment the unofficial figures that have been coming through by various media platforms, local media platforms as well as civil society groups, the electoral commission hasn't made any formal results man. at the moment what they are doing is counting the votes them yesterday from around the country, only a small number of polling stations we re small number of polling stations were affected by delays and violence so they are waiting to see what the result looks likes before waiting to see if it's safe enough, whether it's safe enough for staff to go back in. what is at stake in this election? outline for this election is all about. nigeria is africa's most populous nation, hence the size of the elections. it's the largest economy and its been at the centre of the fight in the region against the islamist militant group poco haran. it's collaborating with some of its neighbours to try and defeat the good that has led to the displacemen

he also had strong words for the electoral commission.w exactly what happened. applause we have to tell our people that we have to be patient and must also act in a very responsible while going peacefully to vote again. the opposition pdp reacted immediately — saying: "president @mbuhari s threat to the lives of nigerians is a direct call forjungle justice & an attempt to divert public attention from their closed session where details of the plots will be perfected." this is interesting. according to nigeria's daily post newspaper, mr buhari's party later refuted that statement — saying the president had been misinterpreted. both the ruling party and the opposition expressed anger at the vote delay — which was made on saturday, just five hours before voting stations were due to open. the electoral commission blamed problems with transporting ballot papers to parts of the country. here's mayeni jones in abuja. the electoral commission on saturday gave a number of reasons for the delay. they said that it was bad weather. as you might be abl

waiting to hear from them going to make it official today we know they had wanted electoral commission to delay announcing the results saying that it was floored it wasn't free and fair and allegedly supporters were intimidated into not voting has denied and now prison body when he speaks will be disappointed he knows he has to try and appeal to all nigerians that despite those who didn't vote for him he will need to be a president with everyone and that will be crucial what easiest way to concentrate abortive in terms of security on the ground it is generally relatively calm and i'm sure we haven't heard of any major incident but here you know a lot of people happy that was. just in case they are problems but. all eyes on the main opposition how are they going to react and what would it tell them what to do if they're not happy and why they're going to stick to it thank you for that live for us in a butcher. i want to take you now live or two hundred or where the u.s. president donald trump is meeting vietnamese leaders. out of his much anticipated second summit with north korea's lea

a book car funny who was the main challenger in this election the electoral commission says he lost is he going to accept that result. pity parties party did not sign that. document of their it's about conceding to the city that accepting this result it was already mentioned yesterday even before the official results were announced that the challenging party p.d.p. is not going to accept this result they are seeing that the appear more votes cast to the state the people who are actually credited to cast the ballots you know i have to accept the electoral commission is saying they're rejecting all of these allegations they're saying they're going to go into that even if this allegation was true it would be probably just a two percent of the more votes for p.d.p. that would not lead to a victory but as i say their bottom line is they're rejecting this allegation by the p.d.p. party and in fact being here in front of the a.p.c. campaign headquarters to be hearing that they are going to be released we are preparing for a victory speech of president mubarak funny thank you very much for tha

the electoral commission has blamed operational reasons, logistics, logistic problems for them changing tomi 0lapido reporting from abuja. former us secretary of state, john kerry, has slammed the climate change record of the current us government, personally criticising president donald trump and vice—president mike pence. kerry was speaking at the munich security conference which, as we've reported, was also attended by the vice—president. mr trump's administration opposes action on climate change and favours boosting us production of oil, gas and coal. john kerry says he feels ashamed of the current policies, which he says will end up costing more in the long run. iam i am ashamed that our vice president of the united states stood up here and never mentioned the word climate change. i wish there was a way to hold the president of the united states accou nta ble for hold the president of the united states accountable for the loss of life that will take place every day, for the displacement of people, the trillions of dollars we will have to spend because we are not getting the job don

the electoral commission has postponed the presidential election by a week, just a few hours before voting due to begin. the commission chairman yakub mahmood said that it was not logistically feasible to proceed as scheduled. this is what he had to say in the last hour. the commission came to the conclusion that proceeding with the election as a scheduled is no longer feasible. consequently, the commission has decided to reschedule the presidential and national assembly elections to saturday, 23rd of february, 2019. let's get the latest now from our correspondent in yola, in the north east of nigeria, mayenijones. we have heard from the two main parties who are condemning this move? the ruling progressive congress was the first party to release a statement and they said they condemned the delay. they called for the supporters to be patient, urging them to turn up on the 23rd when the vote has been rescheduled but they also blamed the opposition, the people's democratic party, for the delay. they hope the commission was not colluding with them. the leader of the opposition shortly later re

term as president despite opposition claims that saturday's election was rigged nigeria's electoral commission formally declared the results early this morning showing a comfortable victory for the incumbent bihari took office and twenty fifteen to fight corruption defeat boko haram and overhaul the country's infrastructure. while d.w. correspondent fanny has been covering this for us and joins us now from just she's in front of the a.p.c. campaign headquarters i'm told fani. has been declared the winner of this election what does this mean for nigeria. well basically the jew is facing the same problems the same challenges just like four years ago when the no new old government was trying to tackle corruption trying to revamp the economy increased ability five book arrived so those problems obviously did not go away those problems are still the same but also quite practically here in front of the competing have supporters of a.p.c. you have different reactions of people some erupting in joy over this result but others are angry because just suggested that there was a pull to bring people to be

nigeria's presidential election postponed for a week the electoral commission made the announcement just hours the full polling booths put you to open. hello and a very warm welcome i'm. in but when it's day two of the munich security conference and with global leaders missing in the german city that to discuss peace and diplomacy german chancellor angela merkel and the u.s. vice president mike pence are expected to deliver a jew ling speeches today the conference was opened by its chairman who was making a point about europe's role in the wold of three superpowers. he couldn't have made his point more clearly the head of the munich security conference open proceedings wearing an e.u. hoodie forgoing issuing a wants world leaders to know that europe has to fulfill its role within the growing struggle of the superpowers the e.u. russia and china crucial. all new leaders carry an even greater responsibility than in the recent past security chairman defense minister funded lyon gave one of the keynote speeches she began by greeting her british counterpart calvin williamson and emphasizing t

if the electoral commission wants to place any results that is not in the selection of what transpired at the polling station. the cup p.v.t. will detect the floor and because we're talking a web beholden to not a we're forming just will come out and told us where are the results of play by the electoral commission it's not true it's almost total thank you so much for joining us so samson they're heading up this pretty impressive operation iago civil society operation here fulfilling a crucial role in monitoring and verifying the results of this election as they come out in the next day or two. all right for the moment jonah how live for us there in a bridge and show. protesters in sudan's capital have denounced the president's state of emergency i'm going to bashir announcing he was dissolved the government but just hours later he appointed six new ministers it's part of a series of measures to deal with weeks of nationwide rallies against the government dosage a body as more. they are calling for an end to their president's rule. and denouncing his latest move only hours after omar b

about this time around is the shop they were given before the postponement was announced the electoral commission made the announcement just three hours to the time the polling stations were expected to all. voters reacted with a mixture of anger frustration and resignation with some describing the electoral body as a disgrace this is the height of incompetence they call tree has never experienced this that could be caught on video of election asax let's look look look what you mean to record of. immediately this morning we're finding out that yet the election as we called off does that is very disappointing very surprising no one really shone for them as an idea i think so embarrassed. nigeria's two main political parties the ruling all progressives congress a.p.c. and the peoples democratic party p.d.p. swiftly condemned the delay and accused it of trying to manipulate the. present moment to bahati i'd call an appeal to merge unions to refrain from civil disorder the presidential and parliamentary votes have been is scheduled for saturday twenty third for. governorship state assembly and local

and nigeria's electoral commission has started announcing official presidential results from the country's thirty six states. senegal's prime minister says president has one reelection but the opposition disputes that and says a vote should go to a runoff official results on tout yet and could take days because huck reports. the vote under the careful watch of party observers and a nation waiting for the name of its you president. will it be incumbent president salva. or edriss sick or the outsider was months ago this month is going to. say. we want to be as transparent as possible so that no one questions the results so we will announce the names publicly in front of everyone's present. voters came early some queuing for hours patiently waiting their turn is seventy six year old ascended jai it's his eleventh presidential election and twenty year old put a candidate who's voting for the first time. i want change there is corruption and dysfunctional justice system this needs to stop growing i want stability so that we can live well and peacefully one. stability and change of promise candi

the electoral commission hasn't yet come down one—way at the other but we expect results to come in withinly. at the moment the unofficial figures that have been coming through by various media platforms, local media platforms as well as civil society groups, the electoral commission has not made any formal results known. what they are doing is counting the results from yesterday around the country, only a small number of polling stations were affected by delays and violence that they are waiting to see what the results like before deciding whether it's safe enough for staff to go back in. what is at sta ke for staff to go back in. what is at stake in this election? outline for the selection is all about. nigeria is africa's most populous nation, it's also the largest economy and its been at the centre of the fight in the region against the islamist militant group book o'hara. it's dry to get some of its neighbours to help in defeating the group and the displacement of millions of people, nigeria to remain a strong and secure country is incredibly important for the stability of the region.

the electoral commission extended voting hours in some places after ballot machines malfunction has more from. many nigerians are watching election officials closely these voters in the commercial capital lagos say they want to make sure there's no rigging last tuesday has cost doubts on the editor commission's credibility and competence. in. the race to govern the country with africa's biggest economy pits incumbent president mohammed to behati against main opposition candidates and former vice president. emotions are high. speed result could lead to violence. there were. parts of nigeria election officials say they generally had with the turnout have to wait to find out who has won and by what margin analysts say it's going to be. early on saturday there were attacks in the north east of the country blamed on boko haram fighters but that didn't seem to deter the voters in rivers state in the south incidents of violence when some people went able to vote whoever wins in nigeria will have to deal with the precarious security situation and the challenge a turnaround in the economy struggl

we have just heard from the electoral commission in the past hour, saying that voting is still goingthe majority of the votes have gone ahead. there were delays in other places where there was violence in some parts of the south of the country. those have been put off indefinitely. we are expecting to hear from the electoral commission any minute now as to what is going to happen with those but as for the general results, that is only going to start being collated from about 6pm local time, that is in just a few hours. it is unlikely we will get any certainty about whether president buhari has been re—elected until the coming week. what are the challenges for whoever takes office? well, whoever takes office has a lot to work on. i think there are several issues that affect nigerians. the economy has not been doing too well in recent years, particularly with fluctuation in the price of oil which nigeria depends heavily upon. reviving that will be a major issue for the winner of this election. corruption is a major achilles' heel for nigeria. it pops up in every sector you can think of

the electoral commission said these were not significant enough to cause a disruption to the electoral changed their minds. this is a huge election and almost eight logistical exercise given the millions of people who have the opportunity to vote in the nigerian presidential poll. there have been problems in previous presidential elections. how about this for nigeria and frustrating for the president? this will make nigerians elizabeth in the process. this is the third election ina row process. this is the third election in a row that has been postponed. there have been different reasons in the past but in this case, people would be hoping that lessons had been learnt but now the electoral commission saying it has its own problems and needs to sort out. both the two top candidates and their parties have responded to this and expressed their disappointment. there had been claims of foul play from either side but i think for the public the voter apathy that the parties have been trying to counter will only get worse and i think a lot of people are definitely losing faith in the process.

each has accused the other of influencing the electoral commission and attempting to rig the vote one major question is over turnout people who travel great distances to vote in their home districts last week may not be able to afford to do so again and this is differ of the extent to which turnout could play for or against either side among the. to the candidates in this election one thing does seem to be a little low turnout and all of this a week long delay could deliver a low turnout well that may well be difficult for the future ruling party in terms of not just its mandate but its ability to go toe to toe al jazeera a boojum now voters in senegal are turning to satire to find out more about the candidates for the presidency the nation goes to the polls on sunday now another african nations comedians making fun of politicians have often found themselves in jail but that's not the case in senegal nicholas reports in the capital dhaka thank you thank you thank you there may be no televised presidential debate but there was a special election coverage. comedian is impersonating all

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nigeria's electoral commission says political campaigning can resume after its controversial decision to delay the general elections by a week president rouhani is calling for an investigation into why the vote was. a new round of trade talks between the united states and china is set to be held in washington from tuesday and follows last week's negotiations in beijing which ended without a deal but negotiators say some progress has been made at resolving the ongoing trade war between rounds two largest economies edging brown has more from beijing will lou hurt china's vice premier who is leading the chinese negotiating team will be on his way back to washington shortly to continue those resumed negotiations which will be held at the end of the week high noon is approaching zero because president donald trump has warned that unless there is a deal by march the first beijing time march the second washington time that he will raise tariffs from ten to twenty five percent on some two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products i think while there has been progress made clearly not

there has been no official announcement from the electoral commission of who has won in fact election officials are still releasing the sols from some of the remote parts of the country there's no indication that's or take the prison supporters are very confident that he's the one who won the election. in the building behind me planning a victory rally where they will plan to hold that in a couple of hours the main opposition party isn't happy with the results so far forward saying that election officials have been working with prison bodies to try and steal this election but they haven't told the supporters of what to do about it . all politicians to not announce any. official results and warn people not to try to incite violence to spread fake news. on the commission. and that. defeat. if this election is disputed they could be violence more than sixty people are feared buried the collapse of an illegal gold mine in indonesia rescue. at least one person has been found dead and thirteen others have been rescued. the u.s. has used a un security council meeting to call for further sanc

angry about this time is the shop that were given before the postponement was announced the electoral commission made the announcement just three hours to the time the polling stations were expected to offer. voters reacted with a mixture of anger frustration andras ignition with some describing the electoral body as a disgrace this is the height of incompetence you call tree has never experienced this that could be caught on the off election asax let's look look look what you mean to record of. immediately this morning we're finding out that yes the election . is very disappointing very disappointing no one really shone for them. just. nigeria's two main political parties the ruling all progressive congress a.p.c. and the peoples democratic party p.d.p. swiftly condemned the delay and accused it of trying to manipulate the. present moment to calm an appeal to majority and to refrain from civil disorder the presidential and parliamentary votes have been is scheduled for saturday twenty third february governorship state assembly and local government elections will now be held and so today the nin

this time around is the shop notice they were given before the postponement was announced the electoral commission made the announcement just three hours to the time the polling stations were expected to all. voters reacted with a mixture of anger frustration and resume mission with some describing the electoral body as a disgrace this is the height of incompetence they call tree has never experienced this that could be caught on video of election does that as acts left look look look what you knew dr alicia was going to record of. immediately this morning we're finding out that yet the election as record of who does that is very disappointing very sad one is no one really shone for him as an engineer i think so embarrassed. nigeria's two main political parties the ruling all progressives congress a.p.c. and the peoples democratic party p.d.p. swiftly condemned the delay and accused each other of trying to manipulate the. present moment of calm and appealed to majority and to refrain from civil disorder the presidential and parliamentary votes have been is scheduled for saturday twenty third for t