a senior kenyan electoral commissioner has resigned saying next week's rerun of the presidential vote will be credible. says the commission has become a party it's a political crisis and is under siege she says her staff faced intimidation and threats the supreme court found irregularities in august's original vote which president of iraq i want sparking protests from opposition groups family that miller has the latest in the capital nairobi. the allegations made by the commissioner dr congo who's just resigned really are an indictment of the i see this is an electoral commission that's already struggled with issues around credibility and questions about whether or not it would be able to hold a free and fair vote dr converses this isn't the case that's what she believes she says that commissioners within the i.e. b.c. i'm making decisions based on individual political allegiances she says she's also fears for the lives of staff members over the last few weeks we've seen demonstrations against the i b c from people who believe that they wouldn't be able to hold a free and fair vote an

kenya is tall electoral commissioner has resigned saying next week's rerun of the presidential vote won't be credible rosalyn at homebase says the commission had become a party to a political crisis and is under siege she says her staff faced intimidation and threats the supreme court found irregularities in august's original vote which president of workin yachts a wall on sparking protests from opposition groups are joining us in the capital nairobi to tell us what more she's saying about the reasons behind her resignation what impact this may have on next week's votes. well at this point the resignation letter coming from a doctor can be really is an indictment of the i.v. see especially where from a considering that he's come from the top tier of the commission so far she has said that she doesn't believe that there would be a credible election and she doesn't believe there would be a free and fair vote not in this political climate she says while they might have been a chance for the i.v.c. to make changes that would allow for a critical vote it's far too late she doesn't feel that he

a senior kenyan electoral commissioner has resigned saying next week's rerun of the presidential vote won't be credible. says the commission had become a party to a political crisis and is under siege she says her staff faced intimidation and threats the supreme court found. irregularities in august original vote which president's or her if any also won sparking protests from opposition groups the un refugee agency says between ten and fifteen thousand refugees are stranded at the bangladeshi border with me and maher. urging the bangladeshi government to speed up its vetting process to allow people through more than half a million have fled violence to me and mars recline states israel has shut down three major media service providers in the occupied west bank for six months palestinians have been arrested including two journalists six members of pakistan's elite police force and the civilian have been killed in an attack on a patrol car twelve others have been injured in that blast that happens in the city . those are the headlines on al-jazeera earthrise is coming up next and it's t

electoral commissioner has resigned saying next week's rerun of the presidential vote won't be credible. says the commission had become a party to a political crisis and is under siege she says her staff faced intimidation and threats the supreme court found irregularities in august original vote which presidents of her opinion also won sparking protests from opposition groups the un refugee agency says between ten and fifteen thousand refugees are stranded at the bangladeshi border with me and maher the u.n.h.c.r. is urging the bangladeshi government to speed up its vetting process to allow people through more than half a million have fled violence to me in mars' recline states israel has shut down three major media service providers in the occupied west bank for six months eighteen palestinians have been arrested including two journalists six members of pakistan's elite police force and the civilian have been killed in an attack on a patrol car twelve others have been injured in that blast that happens in the city off quite so those are the headlines on al jazeera earthrise is coming

the kenyan opposition neda riot rider attender been rallying in nairobi on the day a top electoral commissioner quit over the presidential election rerun. china's president appears to be consolidating his grip on power at the communist party's nineteenth congress in beijing while he laid out his political and economic vision for this country over the next five years. and police in somalia have opened fire on a crowd of people to stop them protesting about saturday's deadly bombings in mogadishu demonstrations have been trying to reach the site of the attack. now u.s. president is facing more control over his handling of the deaths of four u.s. soldiers in an ambush earlier this month he's been forced to deny making insensitive remarks in a phone call to the widow of one of the men and white house correspondent kelly holcomb is following this story for us and president trump has been saying that the reported account of what he said is a complete fabrication what more is he said. well he's spoken about this in just the last hour mariam and he's really continued to defend the comments that he made

a senior kenyan electoral commissioner has resigned saying next week's rerun of the presidential vote won't be credible. says the commission had become a party to the political political crisis and is under siege she says her staff faced intimidation and threats. a judge has blocked u.s. president donald trump's latest bid to impose restrictions on citizens from several countries entering the u.s. the restrictions which would have taken effect this week target had people from iran libya syria yemen somalia and childs the latest court ruling does not apply to north korean venezuela which are also subject to restriction those are the headlines the stream is up next stay with us ahead of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed a satisfied with the state of the economy this is easily news biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time. i'm femi oke i kind of does not hew inquiry into missing. girls is hearing from victims' family members this

kenya's top electoral commissioner has resigned saying next week's rerun of the presidential vote won't be credible rosalynn says the commission had become a party to political crisis and is under siege those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next they with us. news has never been more available but the message is a simplistic and misinformation is right from the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera. the iraqi government to seize control of the disputed all rich city of kut cook and kurdish forces have retreated from other major contested areas in the north so how will this affect the kurds push to secede from baghdad this is inside story. hello again i'm james pays it's a battle for power sovereignty and oil and baghdad says it sent its strongest message so far so the kurdish leadership taking just a day to take charge of cook and the all fields around the city last month voters in iraq's kurdish region as well as some disputed areas overwhelmingly opted to secede but baghdad as well as

commission is saying that these four districts cry primarily opposition strongholds but the electoral commissioner mccarty said that it would exceed that amount there are other polling stations that didn't open for various reasons whether it's because of bad weather or other disruptions so there are a number of polling stations still to open that will only happen once the electoral commission confirms later today and it's not expected that these other polling stations all the outstanding votes would make much of a difference given that there was this boycott called by the opposition and if we look at the stern out of just over thirty four percent of ninety million kenyans registered to vote the question that arises ultimately is the legitimacy of the vote especially if they were a number of disruptions and also if those intimidation which is what to the electoral observation group in kenya says happened so there is a concern around what this vote will eventually mean forward conductor as it's expected he takes his second term as president indeed and there were no stipulations there were no specifi

number of questions around legitimacy and activist rather activist has already taken the electoral commissioner to the supreme court demanding that the. nullify the rerun saying that it wasn't legitimate and it didn't provoke constitutional requirements based on opposition leader raila odinga withdrawing from the race for let's go live now to another of our correspondents in kenya katherine sawyer she's actually in the opposition heartland in consumer in the western part of kenya which of course katherine is the part of the country that hasn't voted at all do we think that the exercise of this presidential election rerun will go ahead in these four counties in the west of the country. very unlikely marty and let me just start by telling you the situation things here in soon when the other three counties that we're talking about have significantly calmed down since the electoral commission announced the suspension of this election a lot of people really quite relieved people who had been just calling on the electoral commission to cancel this election because the situation most fear was just not

it's supposed to happen next week, but a senior electoral commissioner has fled the country, saying sheears for her life last night we started the show with news that the islamic state group has been driven from the syrian city of raqqa. now the united nations says it's ready to go in and help those who survived. we have a report from inside the city. and we'll be live in washington where the us president in the middle of a row about what he did, or did not say to the widow of an american soldier. welcome to outside source. it's the first day of the biggest event in the chinese political calendar — the communist party congress. it's only held once every five years and it determines who will lead the party in the future — and sets out the country's direction. president xi will undoubtedly stay in the top job — he's been accruing more and more power over the past few years. in an epic three—hour speech, he unveiled a vision for a new era where china takes centre stage in the world. from beijing, our china editor carrie gracie reports. like no other party conference, nearly 90 million memb

just a week before the vote, the electoral commissioner fled to new york, saying she feared for her lifethe iebc was rife with divisions. and then another twist in this country's tense political drama. >> all my motions have been defeated by majority of the commissioners. under such conditions, it is difficult to guarantee the free and fair elections. >> in what is called a permanent state of elections -- >> reporter: now days before the election, the big question is will they happen at all? with one candidate and millions of voters not participating in protests. riots groups and election body members warns if the situation cannot be contained, it could turn violent, just like ten years ago when more than a thousand people were killed. this activist ran for office in august and lost. he doesn't think there should be an election at all. >> the country should be worried. we cannot trust the president with political -- we're all afraid of what is going to happen. the election should be called off and prepare for election that are free and fair. >> reporter: if the vote goes ahead, it will b

kenya's top electoral commissioner has resigned saying next week's rerun of the presidential vote won't be credible. says the commission had become a party to political crisis that is at the siege she says her staff faced intimidation and threats the supreme court found regularities in august the original vote which president who could yet award sparking protests from opposition groups. a judge has blocked u.s. presidential jobs latest bid to impose travel restrictions on citizens from several countries a federal judge in hawaii ordered a freeze of most parts of the bather day before it was due to take effect it's targeted people from iran libya syria yemen somalia chad it's the third version of tribes bad to be blocked by a federal judge those with a have lots of be back with board use it thirty minutes to stay with us al jazeera world good to these. mines sure. i live in you know in beirut and i want to have. a message sent from beirut by cohon in the one nine hundred forty s. to the intelligence section of the jewish agency. the agency played a major role in founding israel. and the

to africa or work kenya's top electoral commissioner has resigned saying next week's rerun of the presidentialvote won't be credible rosalind and kombu says the commission had become a party to political crisis ideas of the siege she says her staff faced intimidation and threats the supreme court regularities said august's of original vote which president who could get a word sparking protests from opposition groups. is capital nairobi with the very latest i mean this is an explosive statement to make i mean how significant a figure is she in the election commission also rosena condit is one of seven commissioners in the electoral commission and she was part of a commission that was brought to get at the beginning of the year after complaints about a lack of independence and our she's come out to say well yes the i.v.c. continues to be biased or she's seeing some of that coming from a fellow commissioners and she is respected but what is very important about what she has said is that we've seen a lot of criticism from outside entities around the i b c and this is the first time we're hearing i

it's supposed to happen next week, but a senior electoral commissioner has fled the country, saying sheo go in and help those who survived. we have a report from inside the city. and we'll be live in washington where the us president in the middle

kenya's electoral commission has admitted it can't guarantee free and fair elections the commission's chairman says there has been political interference in its operations this comes as a senior commissioner quit and fled to the us alleging intimidation and threats to her life from a general or as more from nairobi it looks as if things are falling apart at kenya's electoral commission headquarters rather than a combat one of seven commissioners has resigned alleging political interference she says threats have been made on the lives of staff members including her own commissioners are serving political interests and they've been last minute changes to technology and electronic transmission of results hours later the commission's chairman gave a stern warning without critical changes in. this . function without. the chairman's appeal was also aimed at the kenyan public hoping to regain their trust but the damage has been done the electoral commission is already starting with its credibility the chairman's admission that the commission is split and that conditions wouldn't allow for free and fair elections has only echoed an earlier supreme court ruling. last month the cotton old august pr

electoral commission has admitted that next week's election of iran will last be free and fair waffler chebaa carty said there had been political interference in the commission's operations and a senior commissioner has resigned and fled to the united states saying she fears for her life farmer the miller has more from nairobi it looks as if things are falling apart at kenya's electoral commission headquarters rather than a calm there one of seven commissioners has resigned alleging political interference she says threats have been made on the lives of staff members including her own commissioners are serving political interests and they've been last minute changes to technology and electronic transmission of results hours later the commission's chairman gave a stern warning without critical changes in. with out in the field the chairman's appeal was also aimed at the kenyan public hoping to regain their trust but the damage has been done the electoral commission is already starting with its credibility the chairman's admission that the commission is split and that conditions wouldn't allow for free and fair elections has only echoed an earlier supreme court ruling. last month the cotton old augu

around its legitimacy the legal process is around it and of course what the electoral commission said just a week ago the commissioner of the chairman of the commission had said that he couldn't guarantee that there would be free fair and a credible vote. just before the polls opened earlier today he then said we would go ahead with the election we have a constitutional obligation and he says that they would carry it out as far as possible but one issue that did come up is he said that polling stations that didn't actually open the officials they could postpone the the vote until a later date but it's very unclear what will happen around when those elections will happen in polling stations that have been opened at all thanks very much catherine joins us from the opposition stronghold of kisumu katherine what's the picture where you are today. you know we certainly have had what sounds to be gunshots and police have been firing tear gas at protesters this is an area called condell it's one of those areas where protests have been sustained since january and just less than ten minutes ago there were many people right th

also kenya's opposition takes to the streets in protest as an election commissioner quits criticizing the electoral consistent ahead of a rerun of the presidential vote with the latest from nairobi. also thousands of a hindu refugees are stranded at the border of bangladesh and say escape a military crackdown in. the sports. the only for the team the league of the player nothing wrong on the right direction. and it is positive as players team owners in n.f.l. officials prepared to meet for a second day to discuss player protests during the national anthem. welcome to the news i would begin in iraq where the obvious says its mission accomplished in an operation to take back kurdish held territory in the north it's now and. drole of the areas around those holes and nineveh province including the bows all day it's a punishing response to last month's vote by the kurds to secede from iraq in recent days kurdish forces have pulled out of several towns and oil fields pushed by an iraqi military advance now the towns were seized by the kurdish peshmerga over the past three years as part of the war against

nairobi it looks as if things are falling apart at kenya's electoral commission headquarters rather than a calm bear one of seven commissioners has resigned alleging political interference she says threats have been made on the lives of staff members including her own commissioners are serving political interests and they've been last minute changes to technology and electronic transmission of results hours later the commission's chairman gave a stern warning with good political changes and he said thirty of stowe. therefore call understood our work in adversity. but. the chairman's appeal was also aimed at the kenyan public hoping to regain their trust but the damage has been done the electoral commission is already starting with its credibility the chairman's admission that the commission is split and that conditions wouldn't allow for free and fair elections has only echoed an earlier supreme court ruling. last month the court an old august presidential elections it says the commission had not been transparent and there were illegalities in the talent of results that named incumbent president a work in the art of the winne

it looks as if things are falling apart at kenya's electoral commission headquarters rather than a combo one of seven commissioners has resigned alleging political interference she says threats have been made on the lives of staff members including her own commissioners are serving political interests and they've been last minute changes to technology and electronic transmission of results hours later the commission's chairman gave a stern warning with good political changes and use it. free fair and credible elections surely be compromised. therefore call on the advice of the mentioned. this. function without. the chairman's appeal was also aimed at the kenyan public hoping to regain their tranced but the damage has been done the electoral commission is already starting with its credibility the chairman's admission that the commission is split and that conditions wouldn't allow for free and fair elections has only echoed an earlier supreme court ruling. last month the court an old august presidential elections it says the commission had not been transparent and there were illegalities in the telling of results th

establishing his credibility keep in mind that the independent electoral commission has struggled and as recently as a few days ago the the chief commissioner of this of this commission said that he just he didn't believe that the commission could ensure a free and fair result in just a few days before that another key commissioner fled kenya fearing for her life and issuing a statement about partisan divisions within the electoral commission the supreme court was to hear a petition yesterday about the validity of these elections it could not muster a quorum to hear that petition and again that's because the supreme court has been broken down along partisan lines so there's been some clearly there has been some damage whether it's lasting damage we don't know but there's been some damage to the institutional infrastructure here of kenya's democracy is kenya facing a constitutional crisis would you say with what's been happening of the last few months and where to from here with both who do kenyatta and completely doubling down and their positions. right i you know i think many kenyans would argue that they're facing a constitutional crisis

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nairobi it looks as if things of falling apart at kenya's electoral commission headquarters rather than a calm bear one of seven commissioners has resigned alleging political interference she says threats have been made on the lives of staff members including her own commissioners are serving political interests and they've been last minute changes to technology and electronic transmission of results hours later the commission's chairman gave a stern warning with good political changes and he said thirty of stow. most. of the mention. of. the chairman's appeal was also aimed at the kenyan public hoping to regain their trust but the damage has been done the electoral commission is already starting with its credibility the chairman's admission that the commission is split and that conditions wouldn't allow for free and fair elections has only echoed an earlier supreme court ruling. last month the court an old august presidential elections it says the commission had not been transparent and there were illegalities in the telling of results that named incumbent president a work in the art of the winner a rerun is planned for oct

the chairman of the electoral commission has essentially backed dump some of the allegations made by one of the commissioners who's just resigned now dr combat had alleged that there was political a fear and see in the operations of the electoral commission this has been echoed by the chairman who says these interferences have to stop to allow for a free and fair election a rerun of the august election hasd is due to take place in just eight days and that's off to the supreme court last month ruled that the electoral commission hadn't drawn and transparent election at least when it came to the telling of results there were irregularities and illegalities now the commission at this point is not saying that elections won't take place the commission chairman is calling for dialogue to ensure that the election is won in the best way possible but they continues to be a lot of confusion the government of the governing body to believe party says elections will take place the main opposition raila odinga has withdrawn from the race saying elections won't be free and fair and they continues to be this confusion and d

first some extensive reforms of the electoral commission but later on he said that he was willing to have only the secretary of the the people one of the commissioners which would be very difficult to replace. to go and that's who he wanted to go the administrate if part of the commission. what we're seeing is a story where no one has left the electoral commission so far overall the supreme court was really clear in saying that it's the electoral commission that is to blame for the election results this creates now a huge problem across the public now possibly in kenya a real worry from regional capitals as well as the outside world looking at what has been in the in the past one of the most stable democracies in east africa ended well this increases the uncertainty that we've already been seeing in kenya ever since the supreme court declared the result nolen void but again there are not two ways about the elections have to be held on the twenty sixth it's up to railroading again to either reconsider that position has just taken and start campaigning and ask his followers to come out and vote for him or the. it's who becomes the only only only on th

commissioner. did flee the country expressing fears for her life but also stating that she cannot guarantee a credible process because the electoral commission is under seige of bipartisan interests therefore the election cannot be free tracked and credible ok so having said that so what does that mean splay what does that mean for the stability of as ten yet politically economically what does this mean and what does the what does this say to the larger international community that deals with kenya. i think you know that to get our economy under our government and our and our and you know you get our economy and our stability right we've got to get our governance architecture right which means we've got to be able to run credible elections this election was in some way and in many ways our referendum on the economy. we've been beset by strikes by doctors dock workers nurses and so on over the last five years we have a public debt that is rising and endemic levels of corruption in our government. this election was this election was fought by political actors on the basis of of economic progress and lack of there of cited by the opp

electoral commission has admitted that next week's election rewrite may not be free and fair while fooler chaebol cutty says there's been political interference in the commission's operations a senior commissioner has resigned and fled to the united states saying she fears for her life. at least four people dead in togo after police fired tear gas at opposition protests as the demonstrators were defying a government ban on mid-week rally is they are demanding the president's immediate resignation and want to see the introduction of constitutional reforms nigerian police say they're trying to rescue four kidnapped british citizens a police spokesman says they were taken by unidentified gunmen on friday in the oil rich delta state he added that the abductors haven't made contact with police spain has warned it will suspend catalonia is autonomy if the region's leader doesn't abandon his succession bid separatist leader carlists pushed him on has until thursday morning to clarify whether or not he's declaring independence from the rest of the country. the venezuelan oppositions five newly elected governors have refused to be sworn in before president the daughters constituent assembly which it dee

as you said, the commissioner who runs the election himself said, forget about that lady who shall it-- death threats had to flee the country. he himself, the chairman of the electoral commission said i can no longer guarantee a free and fair election. my staff don't listen to me. et cetera. and yet he is saying that this is how astonishing kenya can be, i still want to hold the election. >> glor: so explain to me what raila odinga wants to see specifically in order to agree to an election. >> actually it is quite simple. he wants an election, which is not rigged. the hast one was rigged by the supreme court. >> glor: what has to be done. >> to give you a simple example it is an electronic election. >> glor: right. >> and there is a server, all the votes that are cast are copied on to forms which are scanned and placed into a server. at each polling station its forms are signed by all the parties. and that server contains the history of the election. we want access to independent people to that server. in the election on august 8th, the supreme court demanded that the electoral commission open that server to scrutiny. do you know that the electoral commission refuse

that the electoral commission to clean itself up when the chairman appears when he makes his announcements he and he has actually also admitted that he's under siege out of the seven commissioners four commissioners have been accused of trying to. propagate the agenda of the of the ruling party so the main opposition leader does have a point but he is in between a rock and a hard place because if the election does go forward if he doesn't participate in the election and this gives almost incumbent president who cannot win on a silver platter now this is an interesting situation because you're one of those election in august the supreme court says this was a bogus election there were there were irregularities let's have a new one but kenyans are not united in this desire for a new election other than not we spoke to some kenyans today and they say that. on one side they say that they want to lections and they will go to elections and present who came out in his statement today during the hero's day celebration said that they will provide the government will provide protection for people who want to go to vote on the twenty sixth of september of october so. we have one side that

chief election commissioner has been talking then explaining why the the votes we go ahead tomorrow as she said you know how do you justify his decision. well the chairman of the electoral commission has always said even last week when he said that he could not deliver credible elections it would be difficult to deliver credible elections he always maintained that operationally the electoral commission was ready to to hold an election we're seeing ballot papers being taken to the various areas and various polling stations about forty thousand polling stations across the country for the presidential rerun and even when he was making his statement last week he made the statement alone this week he's made the statement with other commissioners behind him so showing some sort of unity that didn't seem to be there last week. so that's that's basically the situation as it now we are getting reports that this polling stations which haven't been able to set up and he was he was tasked with this question what do you do in a place where elections don't take place and he said that if elections don't take place in certain polling stations the elections will be postponed to a later