would be verbal criticisms made against the president of the electoral commission. police in says he's monitored elections for more than 10 years for being blocked. and the churches were some of the only election observers here that anyone thought might be critical of irregularities in sunday's polls malcolm webb al-jazeera brazzaville republic of congo. or protests have been taking place in spain marking a month since the jailing of catherine rupp a public cell they are demonstrating against herself a 9 month jail sentence on charges of insulting the monarchy and glorifying terrorism in his lyrics in tweets her supporters say it's an attack on free speech the demonstrations of push the government to pledge to abolish prison offenses for incidents involving free speach. well a long dormant volcano is erupting in iceland close to the capital reykjavik it's the 1st eruption in this part of iceland in almost $800.00 war is another fly zone is in place and the alert level has now been lowered but as well which has reports it's bringing back memories of a major incident

would be verbal criticisms made against the president of the electoral commission. says he's monitored elections for more than 10 years before being blocked. and the churches were some of the only election observers here that anyone thought might be critical of irregularities in sunday's polls malcolm webb al-jazeera brazzaville republic of congo. thousands more tanzanians are expected to pay their respects to the late president john mica fully in the capital dadar on sunday on saturday large crowds attended a catholic mass in the city of data set by the foley who is 61 will be buried in his hometown next week as vice president of the who has son was sworn in on friday becoming tanzania's 1st female leader catherine sawyer has more from neighboring kenya. today was a very emotional day in tanzania i had of the burial of the late president john paul the mughal fully on the 26th when he's a rural home of chattel so it started with a requiem mass at the st peter's catholic church in the wrestling where those who spoke about him said that he was a just man and he was ha

would be verbal criticisms made against the president of the electoral commission. pollution says he's monitored elections for more than 10 years before being blocked. and the churches were some of the only election observers here that anyone thought might be critical of irregularities in sunday's polls malcolm webb al-jazeera roosevelt republic of congo. now several 1000 protesters have gathered in israel outside prime minister benjamin netanyahu his residence for the 39th week. the latest rally comes 3 days ahead of israel's general election which will be its 4th in the space of 2 years and that is hoping to benefit on the success of israel's vaccination campaign which has been the fastest in the world demonstrators want him to resign because of charges of bribery fraud and public trust all of which he denies. a long dormant volcano is erupting in iceland close to the capital reykjavik is the 1st eruption in this pos of ice in almost 800 years a no fly zone is in place and the alert level has now been lowered bought as were a challenge reports it's bringing back m

would be verbal criticisms made against the president of the electoral commission. billy sheehan says he has monitored elections for more than 10 years before being blocked. and the churches were some of the only election observers here that anyone thought might be critical of irregularities in sunday's polls. before the internet was switched off supporters of the opposition candidate colella who we saw in the video message in the beginning the one who is on well widely reported to have coded in the hospital now his supporters when they 1st saw that message and heard that news were saying that they believed that he had been poisoned by the government there is a deep mistrust of the government here there's certainly no evidence that we've seen that he was poisoned with those kinds of rumors spreading around particularly in the area where he's from where he has more supporters that's the back ongo area this certainly a tons of tension possibly unrest if they do think that somebody is harmed their chosen candidate so we'll be keeping an eye on that as best as we can al

would be verbal criticisms made against the president of the electoral commission. says he's monitored elections for more than 10 years before being blocked. and the churches were some of the only election observers here that anyone thought might be critical of irregularities in sunday's polls malcolm webb al-jazeera brazzaville republic of congo. while still ahead here on al-jazeera one day 9 lives cut short his family is an activist killed by security forces in the philippines for justice. i. am angry protests in turkey after president at one pulls out of the istanbul convention to protect women from violence. the tornado risk is gone most of the bad weather is left the eastern seaboard but there is something set up there which we should look out briefly you cannot tell from this distance separately because the front runner of the pacific but this on shore breeze through more or less georgia and northern florida is pretty nasty as cold as persistent it brings rain with it jacksonville which is right in in view keeps that till the end of sunday strong wind 18 degre

would be verbal criticisms made against the president of the electoral commission. says he's monitored elections for more than 10 years before being blocked. and the churches were some of the only election observers here that anyone thought might be critical of irregularities in sunday's polls malcolm webb al-jazeera brazzaville republic of congo. and just a day before elections in the republic of congo a leading opposition candidate has been taken to hospital after he tested positive for corona virus parfait called their last tweeted a message for his supporters from his hospital. sure compartment. my dick i'm partly it's i'm in a difficult situation i'm fighting death i demand that you rise up and go vote for change fight don't give up the fight rise up please do this from a still ahead on al jazeera families of activists killed by state forces in the philippines call for justice. and unpick 1st why international fans will be banned from watching the games in tokyo this summer. it's time for the perfect journal the weather sponsored point qatar airways a miserable

would be verbal criticisms made against the president of the electoral commission. says he's monitored elections for more than 10 years before being blocked. and the churches were some of the only election observers here that anyone thought might be critical of irregularities in sunday's polls malcolm webb al-jazeera brazzaville republic of congo. now parts of the astray and states of new south wales are saying some of their west flooding for 100 years and entire house was seen floating down a river near the northern coast many in the region fled to their homes on saturday and as the trench will rain continues and that durations are now underway in sydney's. still ahead here on al-jazeera myanmar's military uses a new tactic to intimidate thousands still rallying against. one day 9 lives cut short families of activists killed by security forces in the philippines call for justice. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways but we're back to normal now which for arabia for levant iran is generally speaking this time of year a lot of sunshine n

there would be verbal criticisms made against the president of the electoral commission. says he's monitored elections for more than 10 years before being blocked. and the churches were some of the only election observers here that anyone thought might be critical of irregularities in sunday's poll. since early in the morning the internet here has been turned off and the roads are closed there are soldiers and police on the street people are only allowed to move around on foot now as you mentioned before we saw the story there one of the opposition candidates calendula is reportedly sick we've covered he released the video message calling on his supporters to go out and vote from a hospital bed with an oxygen mask now before the internet went off some of his supporters had already started speculating that he had been poisoned by the government distrust of the government runs deep here so there's certainly a risk of that inflaming tensions if he's perceived to have been harmed there's a risk of inflaming tensions among his supporters in the back ongoing region of the count

president danny saskatoon grasso has been announced the winner of the electoral commission said he won more than 88 percent of the vote some of his party supporters gathered to celebrate the main opposition party has already said that the results that were announced are incorrect their candidate a half acre less died reportedly of covidien on sunday early on monday and they're saying that a constitutional requirement if a candidate dies cancel the election and rerun it as dreams ignored other opposition candidates boycotted polls and some others are in jail after they challenge the results of the last elections rights activists say that there's no freedom of speech or chance of having any kind of democratic process at all one of them that we spoke to said the results were ridiculous and he said that they suggested that congolese people were happy with the status quo whereas the opposite he says is true congo's billions of dollars of oil wealth haven't helped many of its people the country has suffered multiple debt crises also been a string of corruption scandals corruption investigato

absolutely if not you would not be here interviewing president of the electoral commission if not there would be verbal criticisms made against the president of the. commission. police in says he's monitored elections for more than 10 years before being blocked. and the churches were some of the only election observers here that anyone through might be critical of irregularities in sunday's polls malcolm webb al-jazeera brazzaville republic of congo and. health officials in zimbabwe are appealing for help to replenish the country's blood banks cover 19 lockdowns on restrictions on movement of lots of fewer people donating blood leaving national supplies a critically low levels or which has a reports from harare. it's elaine about lose 1st time giving blood she says the father's sudden death made her realize how important this is my dad was a police officer here part of the zimbabwean police force here and he got shot 6 months ago and unfortunately he didn't survive but i mean that weekend he was in the bad old trauma center we had to rush up and down there is a place near cork road one

warrant to enter the property and would wait to gather more evidence the president of the electoral commission visiting polling stations said everyone should have been able to vote on that. we can't imagine a person with a cat whose name is not on the electoral list but we gave instruction that all those persons must vote. in one he campaigns for democracy with a group of activists he says people are voting in fear since it was short the situation is threatening and doesn't guarantee a peaceful election i'm sure the result will be contested because the election is not credible the activists say there are many problems with the electoral register sharyn says his father is on it even though he died years ago he also found the names of a couple of his neighbors on the list even though they're long dead young people on the other hand many of them don't even try to register others sell their vote and he says that's because they don't believe that there's any chance an election can bring any change 'd. money played a big part in the campaigns to hear cash was thrown to people as payment for attendin

absolutely if not you would not be here interviewing president of the electoral commission if not there would be verbal criticisms made against the president of the. commission. police in says he's monitored elections for more than 10 years before being blocked. and the churches were some of the only election observers here that anyone thought might be critical of irregularities in sunday's polls malcolm webb al-jazeera brazzaville republic of congo. parts of the astray and state of new south wales are experiencing some of their worst flooding for decades have a look house was seen floating down a river near the northern coast thousands of people have already fled their homes well let's bring in jonathan how he's from the australian bureau of meteorology and he joins us now from melbourne jonathan there's a pretty widespread evacuation orders that are already in place and it looks set to get once. good morning to start here and good afternoon from australia so that's right a very dangerous a significant flooding event and for you of course the new south wales and including the biggest c

political opposition in the republic of congo say they've been cheated electoral commission said president any sasser ingress a one with nearly 90 percent of the vote but you do tickle with a bone congo is not a democracy you can see what happened congress is a dictatorship pure and simple. presidential polls one sunday results were announced 2 days later the supporters here don't believe the results but also many of them say they're not surprised some of the opposition candidates boycotted the elections entirely to others who won in the last election are in jail serving sentences of 20 years forced labor that they were given off the challenging the result of the last election the police part of the most prominent opposition candidates is dead was announced just after voting he tested positive for covert. many of his supporters think he was poisoned his party officials say they've discovered widespread irregularities like polling stations where the president won more than 6 times as many votes as the work people voting liberal politically not a democrat human history the union of human his

conservative party funds have been used to pay for refurbishment of downing street but the electoral commissionh the party to establish whether any sums relating to the renovation work for within the regime regulated by the commission. it does not seem to amount to a formal investigation so far but certainly questions being asked. donning —— downing street said all appropriate conduct had been followed and all appropriate equity —— donations have been declared to the electoral commission. the housing and communities secretary, robertjenrick, has announced measures to help england's retail and hospitality the housing and communities secretary, robertjenrick, has announced measures to help england's retail and hospitality sectors re—open after coronavirus restrictions have been lifted. pubs, restaurants and listed buildings have been given flexibility to use their land to allow more people to meet up. the housing and communities secretary, robertjenrick, a �*welcome back fund' of 56 million pounds has also been created to boost high streets and seaside towns. mrjenrick says the money will be dist

would be verbal criticisms made against the president of the electoral commission. pollution says he's monitored elections for more than 10 years before being blocked. and the churches were some of the only election observers here that anyone thought might be critical of irregularities in sunday's polls malcolm webb al-jazeera roosevelt republic of congo. or protests have been taking place in spain marking a month since the jailing of catalan wrap up the hustle they're demonstrating against high sells 9 month jail sentence on charges of insulting moniker and glorifying terrorism in his lyrics and tweets his supporters say it's an attack on free speech the demonstrations of course the governments have pledged to abolish prison offenses for incidents involving free speech. a long dormant volcano is erupting in iceland close to the capital reykjavik it's the 1st eruption in this part of ice and an almost 800 years and no fly zone is in place and the alert level has been low for a challenge reports it's bringing back memories of a major incident 10 years ago. icelanders

political opposition in the republic of congo say they've been cheated the electoral commission said president any sasa requests a one with nearly 90 percent of the vote but due to local motorboat the congo is not a democracy you can see what happened congress a dictatorship pure and simple presidential polls one sunday results were announced 2 days later the supporters here don't believe the result but also many of them say they're not surprised some of the opposition candidates boycotted the elections entirely to others who won in the last election are in jail serving sentences of 20 forced labor that they were given off the challenging the result of the last election the breeze past. the most prominent opposition candidates is dead. it was announced just after voting he tested positive for covert. many of his supporters think he was poisoned his party officials say they've discovered widespread irregularities like polling stations where the president won more than 6 times as many votes as the worst people voting liberal politically not a democrat human history the union of humanis

the electoral commission said he won more than 88% of the votes.e of his party supporters gathered to celebrate. the main opposition party said the results are incorrect. their candidate died reportedly of covid on sunday or early on monday and they're saying that a constitutional requirement if a candidate dies to cancel the election and rereturn -- rerun it has been ignored. other candidates boycotted and some others are in jail after they channeled the results of the last election. rights activists say there's no freedom of speech or chance of having any kind of democratic process at all. one of them we spoke to said the results were ridiculous an he said that they suggested that congolese people were happy with the status quo whereas the opposite, he said is true. congo's billions of dollars of oil wells haven't helped many of its people they have country suffered multiple debt crises. there's been a string of corruption scandals. corruption investigators accuse the firstli family and people i the inner circle of stealing vast sums of money, so

well that's what the electoral commission claims they say that. they won more than 88 percent of the vote but these results have already been rejected by the opposition the leading opposition party says that they're incorrect it's candid it believes partially died late on sunday or early monday reportedly from kovi one of the things they've been saying should have happened according to the constitution that when a candidate dies then the election should be canceled and rerun later were they saying that their request for that to happen was ignored and they pushed ahead electoral commission pushed ahead with the results anyway another prominent candidate matches on said that the also rejected these results and said that it is impossible to in congress especially when the internet is off which he has been since the early hours of sunday that's election day said it would be impossible to council with results in congo in the time frame anyway suggesting that this result is according to him just made up rights activists have also been complaining about

is very hard for anyone to see what the electoral commission is doing in its lack of transparency the activists say is just one of many things that make this process potentially not very democratic it's all. of the and i from an office in candidates who ran in the last election they challenge the result they were accused of trying to overthrow the government sentenced to 20 years forced labor. rights activists complain that they have frequently targeted arrested no freedom of speech and the basic catholic church on the local civil society groups were banned from observing the polls and they were probably among the only observers anyone expected to say anything critical of phil so a lot of those rights activists and pro-democracy activists say that even long before this election was planned there wasn't really any chance of having a democratic process in the 1st place the u.s. secretary of defense has met the afghan president during an unannounced visit to kabul lloyd austin said his main reason for visiting was to hear president ashraf ghani his concerns that's ahead of a deadline agr

paper loss they are not i would like to take this opportunity to appeal to the independent electoral commission to ensure that this whole process takes place peacefully and that there's no cheating observers say the turnout was low and that could work against some candidate the governing party aims to win 148 seats in parliament enough for a working majority of the opposition want to stop that from happening having stayed away from the presidential election in december analysts here say the opposition may struggle to reassert itself but for ivorians the primary concern is an election that doesn't get married in pilar's. reduce i'll just be sure. egypt's president says he's visited sudan as the enablers push to break a diplomatic deadlock with ethiopia with giant new dam both egypt and sudan lie downstream from the ground if european. and they worried about future water supplies years of talks between 3 countries have repeatedly stalls. we discussed the renaissance dam in ethiopia this affects all the countries around the nile basin we had agreed to continue our efforts on coordination and consu

paper loss they are not but i would like to take this opportunity to appeal to the independent electoral commission to ensure that this whole process takes place peacefully and that there's no cheating observers say the turnout was low and that could work against some candidates the governing party aims to win 148 seats in parliament enough for a working majority of the opposition want to stop that from happening having stayed away from the presidential election in december analysts here say the opposition may struggle to reassert itself but for ivorians the primary concern is an election that doesn't get married and buy less. when we come back. the netherlands holds its 1st music festival since the pandemic began to see major events can be covered proof. jono hole in belfast northern ireland where post breaks the tensions of caused loyalist paramilitary groups to withdraw their support from the good friday peace agreement. for the perfect gentleman. sponsored by qatar airways. now it has got cold temperatures is the forecast be only 10 degrees in tokyo having been up as high as 20 couple of days a

coast's parliamentary elections are set to be released but the opposition is now accusing the electoral commission of committing fraud by qunu thing in the voters' people went to the polls on saturday largely free of the violence that rocked the presidential election back and we'll talk about all those other headlines kimba now we'll have more news for you here on al-jazeera oft at the listening post do stay with us. they captured the hearts of sounds around the world. but unlike most of those. games. put themselves in the minds of something more important than the beautiful game footballing legendary cancer introduces. players who bucked the trend and stood up for what they believed there was. a new season of. coming soon on al-jazeera. ethiopian forces or. to treat. after terrorists say. i'm going to make them back out as i made it pretty impossible to get accurate information about what. germany of this see the conflict they just got hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post where we dig into the coverage and look at how news is reported here are the media stories we're examining th

here at the polling station after the incident itself break in is very hard to see what the electoral commission is doing and it's that lack of transparency that activists say is just one of many things that make this process potentially not very democratic it's all. of the prominent opposition candidates who run in the last election they challenge the result. accused of trying to overthrow the government sentenced to 20 years forced labor. rights activists complain that frequently targeted arrested no freedom of speech and the basic catholic church on the local civil society groups were banned from observing the polls and they were probably among the only observers anyone expected to say anything critical at all so a lot of those rights activists and pro-democracy activists say that even long before this election was planned there wasn't really any chance of having a democratic process in the 1st place. talking to us from brussels thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera heavy rain batters parts of australia as new south wales in what's being called a once in 100 years event. and battling illegal f

profit loss they are not but i would like to take this opportunity to appeal to the independent electoral commission to ensure that this whole process takes place peacefully and that there's no cheating observers say the turnout was low and that could work against some candidate the governing party aims to win 148 seats in parliament enough for a working majority of the opposition want to stop that from happening having stayed away from the presidential election in december analysts here say the opposition may struggle to reassert itself but for ivorians the primary concern is an election that doesn't get married in pilar's. already trees. are shot. roman catholic worshippers in sri lanka are demanding justice for the victims of the 21000 is just some of the bombings there were in black to church on a day religious leaders have declared black sunday the catholic church is criticizing a government reports for not revealing who was behind the attacks when 260 people dies in the coordinated attacks. several 100 protesters of rallies in barcelona against the jailing of spanish rapper pablo hersel. these

profit and loss they are not i would like to take this opportunity to appeal to the independent electoral commission to ensure that this whole process takes place peacefully and that there's no cheating observers say the turnout was low and that could work against some candidates the governing party aims to win 148 seats in parliament enough for a working majority of the opposition want to stop that from happening having stayed away from the presidential election in december analysts here say the opposition may struggle to reassert itself but for ivorians the primary concern is an election that doesn't get married in pilar's. my degrees which is either. now anger over the u.k.'s brags that deal with the e.u. could spill over into protests and possible violence according to one leading opponent people in northern ireland who want to remain part of the u.k. say the deals driven a wedge between them and the rest of the country and a whole experience now from belfast. in communities still divided protestant unionists from catholic nationalist the past is hard to shake off even though we have a peace pro

the electoral commission has said it was. maybe on wednesday or thursday this week but rights groups and democracy activists say that votes are being counted and in the dark with the internet and also with. international observer mission were not able many of them not able to attend not able to meet what they said were impossible to meet with quiet the catholic church one of the few institutions here that does speak out about. electoral irregularities they were blocked from monitoring the polls as were the local civil society groups so there's no one of the process that anyone would expect to be critical so that's why opposition rights groups say that whatever happens between now and when the result is announced is very opaque indeed. thanks mark a welcome web live in. is yes top court has confirmed former interior minister mohammad. as the winner of last month's presidential runoff who won 55 percent of the vote the results were fiercely contested by the opposition 2 people were killed in violence in the capital assumes inau

the president's electoral commission said the provisional result wouldn't be announced for 3 or 4 days definitely some people will be wondering what's going to happen between now and then right now they're expected to be counting votes in the polling station and the internet shots off some of the observers who seem to be the only ones that have a chance of being independent was a church group and also the local civil society groups they were blocked from observing the polls so they're not in the polling stations now watching that counts and then the question of course is what happens to that data when it leads to the polling stations when it's essentially put together before the result is released and if the internet indeed stays off then it's going to be very difficult for anyone to monitor this but democracy activists say the problems began long before even the preparation for this election those candidates mention the disputed the last election results they refused to trying to overthrow the government ended up being sentenced to 20 years forced labor rights activists say that targe

a loss they are not but i would like to take this opportunity to appeal to the independent electoral commission to ensure that this whole process takes place peacefully and that there is no cheating observers say the turnout was low and that could work against some candidate the governing party aims to win $148.00 seats in parliament enough for a working majority but the opposition want to stop that from happening. having stayed away from the presidential election in december and early c.s.a. the opposition me struggle to reassert itself but for ivorians the primary concern is an election that doesn't get moved in bloodless let's now speak to a manager is he joins us from the largest city in ivory coast amid so we're still waiting for early results but already claims of fraud. exactly in fact some results talk to trickling in since last night before the announcements were suspended until 14 g.m.t. that's about 20 minutes ago when voting or counting and the announcement of results will continue election commission says it's hopes to end the count and announce winners today however i was before t

well according to the electoral commission it's a sweeping victory for journey south and grettir with more than 88 percent of the votes just spoken to officials from the leading opposition party you've already said that this result is incorrect their candidate it frees parfait color died on late monday or late sunday or early monday reportedly from tobit so one of the things they are saying that should have been invoked is a constitutional requirement if a candidate dies to cancel the election and have a rerun they're saying that their demand for that constitutional requirement to be applied was ignored and the result went ahead anyway as you said some opposition candidates were in jail 2 were sentenced to 40 years forced labor accused of trying to launch an armed insurrection that was after they challenged the results of the last election a lot of rights activists say this is no freedom of speech and there was no chance of having any democratic process in the 1st place ok thanks mark him for the update malcolm web following the elections in republic of congo if europeans prime minist

idris he joins me live from be shown an homage both sides there claiming victory you're at the electoral commission is there any indication at this stage of his rights. well basically looks like a given party is probably right but it is not to be decided by journalists or commentators like us however what will happen is that in a few minutes we expect the board right behind me to be occupied by election appreciate school and i was a final set of results the most contentious of course here in ivory coast means that we are beyond these polls or other these are these these seeds of been contested for vigorously by both political parties and there are allegations of fraud allegations of claims of wailing and. counterclaims why the opposition on the ruling party so it's so confusing right now and we understand that some of these votes have to be recounted by the election commission so as to get a clear winner and acceptable result to be announced for both sides so basically right now what we are hearing is that the election commission will announce a final set of results here in a few minutes time and t

double envelope ballots and the electoral commission has made it clear there will be a delayed counting process there and you can expect proper results coming through on friday so encouraged with that warning but at the moment the signs are looking good for benjamin a. very full sit with the latest from the likud party headquarters in the west jerusalem that's course that harry for the moment thank you. well let's go now to natasha go name who's a yes. q in television the party of yeah let peed so 1st of all tell us a little bit about the kind of exhibit poll results that are being trusted there and what the reaction is. well again. harry mentioned is that these are exit polls so things could change but it appears from what we're seeing that as pollsters and analysts predicted yes chairman yeah year he will get the 2nd largest number of votes and therefore seats and right now it's looking again according to exit polls as though yes it will get about 18 seats. here at lee if they could get maybe 1920 even $21.00 seats $22.00 seats would be considered a victory clearly they would again ha

right now that official from the electoral commission is on state television reading results district by district the internet be switched off here early hours of sunday that was polling day so that's the only way that information can be disseminated the moment is through the state broadcaster now in almost all of the areas that interesting result very fast to ingress there is being announced as the winner and give the past the opposition candidate who died in being a 2nd place now this is something that. supporters certainly will be very skeptical about there are many of them you know in areas in the poorer suburbs around the city people who have known anyone who was supporting the ruling party people you know entire communities voting for the opposition they're going to be very skeptical about being told that the ruling party has in fact won and his death also he reportedly died of. if you travel the world towards the end of last week you missed the final rally that was meant to be here in the capitol grounds of ill on friday he traveled to paris seeking medical treatment center a d

the president's electoral commission said the provisional result wouldn't be announced for 3 or 4 days definitely some people will be wondering what's going to happen between now and then right now they're expected to be counting votes in the polling station and the internet shuts off some of the observers who seem to be the only ones that have a chance of being independent was a church group and so the local civil society groups they were blocked from observing the polls so they're not in the polling stations now watching that count and then the question of course is what happens to that data when it leads to the polling stations when it's essentially put together before the result is released and if the internet indeed stays off then it's going to be very difficult for anyone to monitor this but democracy activists say the problems began long before even the preparation for this election those candidates you mentioned the disputed the last election results they refused to trying to overthrow the government ended up being sentenced to 20 years forced labor rights activists say that ta

europe the electoral commission what's been said so far. basically the last contentious. seat. just a few minutes ago. by the election officials and the seats for you. and hauled away so some indications now the governing party of president of us of what. half the seats in parliament in fact the projections that he the party has won 100 seats in parliament. to the other parties now. the official statement so far all the officials. and we expect a formal statement from the election commission to tell us how they went about this so it's almost settled now. by their respective. well because last year when the opposition to the presidential elections. on its performance in subsequent elections and this is. right across the coast ok thank you for that update from. well the senegalese opposition leader asan sankoh is calling for peaceful demonstrations after his release on monday at least 10 people died during protests against his arrest on charges president saleh is also appealing for calm. ports from to car. a night of celebration after days of protests i there he is released on ba

that you would broaden the electoral commission to choose the chief executive and they will get broader establishment, probation, they will be able to pick candidates for the legislative council as well as potentially vote for their inclusion in legislate of counsel? that to me and many people in society not part of the process say, we do not have a voice. >> well, you must look at the matter in the round and look at a perhaps in this way. we look at how the chief executive is to be selected and legislative council to be formed in hong kong that is explained. the actual situation in hong kong as i said have about certain things, has rendered certain things to be changed in order for the stability and prosperity of hong kong to be maintained, that is a very important feature of one country to systems. of course apart from the street violence we had a 2019, we have seen certain separatism and anti-chinese sentiment creeping or perhaps manifesting in the political structure of hong kong, and that is not going to be sustainable. that is not going to be beneficial to the people of hong kong,

electoral system. ♪ the european commission has banned an export of coronavirus vaccines after italy requested 250 thousande astrazeneca vaccine remain there instead of going to australia. we have more from sydney. reporter: australian officials said losing one shipment is not going to derail plans. they did not seem to alarmed by what happened -- too alarmed by what happened with italy. the finance minter there is disappointment and frustration this happened with italy, but he also said this shows the ordinate position australia is in compared to desperation and different parts of the world, clearly referring to the european union. the country is still quite reliant on shipments from the front parts of the world, but we also heard from the health minister, who said the domestic production of the vaccine is due to start by the end of the month with an aim of one million doses. anchor: china is trying to tighten its grip on who stands for election in hong kg. beijing has unveiled plans to have a committee approved candidates for hong kong's assembly elections committee members are loyal to beijing. the unit

of the cabinet ministers they'd been trying to bribe election commission officials to ignore these accusations the military had said electoral inconsistences again the military's been saying this since well since the election itself but has used it as a justification for the coup they haven't proven any of these claims and in fact independent election. overwatch is who said they haven't seen any consistency of these charges either he also said that the military would maintain their control of the country for such a period until an election could happen nationally they said after the coup on february 1st that would be 12 months they seem to be stretching that out now potentially to even longer so no surprises here unfortunately. more charges being for the against young son suchi we imagine in the next few days and a period of indefinite military control tony chang now with all the latest for us from bangkok thank you so much tony. well as tony was mentioning amnesty international is saying analysis of more than 50 videos shows that mia lost military isn't gauging and premeditated killings and the poing what it calls battlefie

electoral test for coronavirus policies in europe. the european medicines agency says it's firmly convinced the benefits of the astra zeneca shot outweigh the risks edges he commissioned investigation into a few reports of blood clots of people who have gotten the vaccine a number of countries have temporarily suspended their use of the product the ear of you should conclude on thursday that the agency says there's no indication the vaccine is linked to blood clotting john mccain is live for us from berlin dominic what more can you tell us. the central question the e.-m. is being posed revolves around the efficacy but also the safety of this vaccine from astra zeneca specifically is it the cause of the incidence of blood clots that have been reported by several different european countries which cause so much concern in those european countries that the health ministry said women must suspend the use of the vaccine remember at the same time there are other european countries who are still administering it and who say they have every faith in its efficacy and its safety and they are pleased that it allows them to carry on vaccinating at a great speed earlier the spokes