and murad, technicalities of the election. and murad. how _ technicalities of the election.ch of a story does the scene behind you tell? we can see a well—maintained road with traffic flowing, and obviously buildings that have been destroyed previously. actually in mosul here which has been liberated from the so—called islamic state just four years ago, but the buildings like this one, you can see them easily, the destruction is still remarkable here in this city. this is really triggering the anger and frustration among people i talk to, many of them stressing they won't be taking part in these elections. they said that the central government in baghdad are neglecting us, although all the sacrifices they have been fighting against, the so—called islamic state, the devastation situation, they went through after the islamic state in this area. so everyone is saying rebuilding mosul is the main question, and this raises questions for the sunni component in iraq, so sunnis, there were prisons of jihadis, and their cities need rebuilding, and that is the main headline, all sunni

murad isn't giving anything illegal, but he still doesn't murad isn't doing anything illegal, but hetations. so when people come to you, they are not... you know they're not going to belarus for a holiday? of course. you know they're going to europe? yeah. next, a smuggler. he is preparing to take a group through belarus to europe. translation: if you are using a smuggler, it is going to cost| you a lot at the borders. it will cost between $9,000 and $12,000. by now, idris and his friends have reached the bela russian capital, minsk. the airport is jammed with people making the same journey. the group has been told to go to a hotel and wait for instructions. are you worried about the journey? translation: of course we are. we are crossing - the border illegally. we don't know what will happen. we can't trust anyone, | not even our smuggler. we are putting our. faith in god's hands. in may, the president of belarus, alexander lukashenko, threatened to flood the eu with drugs and migrants. revenge, it seems, for eu sanctions. soon thousands were crossing into lithuania. we went to see

bbc arabic�*s murad shishani is in the iraqi city of mosul, and has more on what the issues are for votershe protesters were asking for back in 2019, but so far the first thing that has been met now is the early election as we can see today here. however, still those protesters are not happy because they said their demands were a package that involves fighting corruption, disarming militiass, and political reform, which one main part in an early election. however, today we have been hearing in mosul, for instance, in the mosques as well as the military vehicles, with speakers, calling urgently for people to take part in this election. boycotting polls seems to be very strong among iraqis, because this seems to be the case all over the country. on the technical level, iraqis have presented a new law, which guarantees 25% of the seats for women, as well as as well as very technology—led system for counting, as well as guaranteeing no breaches with the voting process. also there are international observers. now the major question is the political question, in a divided country with 21 coaliti

bbc arabic�*s murad shishani told me about the leadup to the election, from the iraqi city of mosul.a sort of package of demands, as they told me. this package included an early election, but the government authorities thought of only one condition, they asked for fighting corruption, disarming the militias, asking for political reform, more engagement for youth, therefore as the government, as it did not meet all the demands for the protesters, then the boycotting campaigns have become stronger, day after day here in iraq. this is what we have noticed in a city like mossel, which has been liberated for years from the so—called islamic state, but the devastating situation is still there and people were reluctant to go to the polling stations. what could change that? the iraqi people are asking for a new country, notjust our iraq divided by sectarianism,. they are asking for more share in the power. all this service of political demands are in the presence in these elections. the headlines on bbc news... taiwan's president uses the island's national day to insist it won't bow to beiji

president barham saleh says the poll is an opportunity to rebuild the state. 0ur correspondent muradcoming at a very interesting time. back in 2019, protests sparked in major cities in iraq. youngsters calling, demanding for reforms. one of their main demands was an early election. early elections now here in iraq, you can see, was one of these demands amongst many others, including fighting corruption, political reform, etc. in this case, that led some people to call for increasing calls to boycott the elections here. that is what you see actually here in mosul. many people i spoke to here, this city has been liberated, as iraq is now, from the so—called islamic state about four years ago. since then they are rebuilding, it is ongoing, but still many things have to be done yet. therefore the locals told me, many people i spoke to, they do not represent all people here in mosul, however, many people i spoke to stressed they will not be taking part in this election. there are two major levels we need to talk about here regarding this sunday's elections. first one that on a technical l

bbc arabic�*s murad shishani, who�*s in the iraqi city of mosul, explained the background to today�*shis package included an early election, but the government, the authorities, have metjust only this one condition. they asked for fighting corruption, they asked for disarming the militias, they asked for political reform, more engagement for you. therefore, as the government did not meet all these demands from the protesters, the boycotting campaigns have been becoming more stronger day after day here in iraq. and this is what we have noticed, for instance, in a city like mosul, which has been liberated four years ago from the so—called islamic state, but their devastated situation is still there, so people were reluctant to go to the polling stations today. so people are asking for a new iraq. that�*s notjust iraq divided by sectarian. iraq not controlled by the certain, let�*s say, for instance, like shia political parties in all the years since the toppling or overthrowing of the saddam hussein regime. they ask for more share in the power. all these political demands are present in

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murad isn�*t doing anything illegal, but he still doesn�*t want to be identified. we don�*t know what will happen. we can�*t trust anyone, not even our smuggler. we�*re putting our faith in god�*s hantz. we�*re putting our faith in god�*s hands. in may, the president of belarus, alexander lukashenko, threatened to flood the eu with drugs and migrants. revenge, it seems, for eu sanctions. soon, thousands were crossing into lithuania. we went to see the border for ourselves. the guards here still catching dozens of migrants every day. lithuania says belarus is actively helping them to cross illegally. in some places, the border is little more than a gap in the forest. we can see some belarussian border guards coming right now. until the crisis began, there was regular communication between the two sides, but after president lukashenko threatened to allow migrants into the eu, all of that cooperation stopped and people started to flood across this border, and you can see just how easy it was. but thousands of migrants are now in detention, more than 700 here in a form

bbc arabic�*s murad shishani has more from irbil.s this election, this is the lowest recorded ever in the elections, and this shows that the boycotting campaigns and the sort of frustrations of people to go into this election, they have been heard loudly, i guess, this election, they have been heard loudly, iguess, because this election, they have been heard loudly, i guess, because even though there is a technicality here, these numbers have been counted through those people who are carrying the cards for elections, notjust those people who are carrying the cards for elections, not just those who are legible to vote, therefore, that means this is the turnout is very low. we were talking to the independent high commissioner of the elections today and they told us they are expecting the result late afternoon today in the local time, so they are taking their own time in accounting — in the counting. they have set up a high—technology system to count this number, even though due to the political polarisation and tension between the diff