nick cullen connolly nick you. in central here a van in republic square i believe we're pushing in support has a gathering ahead of that vote today how optimistic are they that he will be elected prime minister. good afternoon chris well this is an extraordinarily racks and optimistic mood on the square behind me can maybe see some of the thousands of people who've turned out to watch the large translation of the debates in parliament they've been shouting charging his name nicole nicole nicole we were seeing people bring their elderly parents their children their pets there was no real sense of fear and to the extent there was a feeling of a done deal that this was going to happen but then early this morning messages came through from the ruling republican party that seems to us that they might be pulling back from their earlier pledge to support him and that seems to have really pulled the wool all to this when really encourage the turnout because they really feel like they need to stand here to the end to make sure he becomes prime minister by the end of the day. i mentioned earlier on in his speech to parliament warned of a political toonami if he wasn't to be elected prime ministers how are other lawmakers responding to that. we haven't heard much from the main opposition parties in parliament they're all holed up listening to passion peppering him with questions as to what he would do as interim prime minister but certainly it would be a very. very unexpected vote pass and it would be met with all of his duty we spoke to one old lady on the square who said that they're hoping party would be chased out of town basically if they went back on their promise to support or at least not get in the way of passion and being elected they first that they wouldn't vote their candidate and indeed he is the only candidate up for next today in recent days they even said that they would for the sake of national unity support him so if then despite in spite of all those pledges they go back on that and use some tactic ing to deprive him the necessary votes that. we'll encourage you out in the streets and could see people staying on this square for the days and weeks to go ok nic many thanks for that nick connelly day in. ok that's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the united nations delegation has arrived in myanmar's rakhine state to investigate the range of crisis some seven hundred thousand muslim ranges fled me and for neighboring bangladesh following a military crackdown last august the un has described the action as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. north and south korea have begun taking down loudspeakers on their border that have plagued propaganda for decades the move fulfills a promise made at the historic summit between the two countries' leaders last week meanwhile south korea has also asked the un to verify north korea's planned shut down of the nuclear testing site. a judge in australia has ordered the country's highest ranking catholic cardinal george pell to stand trial on multiple charges of sexual abuse and hell is the most senior member of the catholic church to be tried on such charges details about the allegations have