kabila who should have stepped down two years ago but instead postpone the election several times the r.c. has seen years of conflict and a recent outbreak of ebola pope francis on sunday prayed for peace during the election roughly half of the d.r. seized population is catholic. what are you. liberals pray together for those in the democratic republic of congo who suffer from violence and ebola. oh. i hope everyone is committed to maintaining a peaceful climate that allows for regular and peaceful conduct of the elections. given their. polls were scheduled to close two hours ago but many are still open as people wait to cast their ballots there were also reports of glitches that some polling stations but for the most part voters were simply happy to finally have their say. they waited for two years to cost seventy eight watch difference one a few more hours in the pouring rain make. after eighteen years of the same man in charge of voters in kinshasa waited eagerly for their chance to select a new president. they have a choice between three main candidates two from the opposition and a former

r.c. i mean judges involved in the ruling to be hanged. no one convicted of blasphemy has ever be legally its accusers about to start but there are plenty of examples of people who have been killed by lynch mobs just after being accused of it and its religious minorities it was disproportionately affected by the controversial laws. pakistan's christians make up around two percent of the population and have been the target of escalating attacks in recent he is human rights groups claim accusations of blasphemy is seen as an easy way to settle disputes as a hard to disprove but the acquittal of ossie bibi also provides a ray of hope for this pastor. the fact that an innocent woman can be sentenced to death has made us it will set a bad precedent to where they can arrest anyone and prosecute them so when we heard that b.p. was finally acquitted you cannot be happy were we went to churches and offered prayers of thanks to god. for. we were into fearful when we were young but we do have some fears now by for example if there are gatherings we don't go outdoors when children go

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r.c. and the judges involved in the ruling to be hanged. no one convicted of blasphemy has ever be legally bought the star but there are plenty of examples of people who have been killed by lynch mobs just after being accused of it and it's really just minorities it was disproportionately affected by the controversial laws. pakistan's christians make up around two percent of the population and have been the target of escalating attacks in recent he is human rights groups claim accusations of blasphemy seen as an easy way to settle disputes as they are hard to disprove but the acquittal of ossie bibi also provides a ray of hope for this pastor. the fact that an innocent woman can be sentenced to death has made a scared it will set a bad precedent to where they can arrest anyone and prosecute them so when we heard that she had a baby was finally acquitted you cannot behave how happy we were we were the two churches and offered prayers of thanks to god. while. we were into fearful when we were young but we do have some fears now for example if there are gatherings we don't go

r.c. fix is to tell you after the release of a documentary on cambodian child prostitution has been accused of spreading fake news says wife to speech the. mediation to meet the cambodian galvin want to see him. otherwise. i'm just going to pan here in moscow you're watching the international now top story this hour russian scandals back because austrian police have accused russian biathletes now violating anti doping rules at the twenty seventeen world championships let's get more on this now from. the sports correspondent good afternoon what are the details and if these accusations. well now we have it confirmed from the russian sports minister that the russian governmental body did receive an official a formal complaint coming from the austrian authorities regarding possible violation of anti-doping regulations back in twenty seventeen when the country held by a law in the world championship and russia took part in that championship this comes after on wednesday night the austrian police came to the hotel where the russian national team was staying and put forward the accusations to the

a spanish journalistic an r.c. a horde of says that if incidents like this one are tolerated democracy is in danger when the judge has not only said the president has said the really dangerous precedent for journalists along the three known film of the press which by the way is enshrined and i know the spanish contra little article plenty this might be a strong sort of warning for journalists who are really delving into into the media so others in spanish politics understand each other will too that we should really put off some people of really understanding to investigate spanish fundamental basic well what lobby for states year are that bury pillars of the marxist in this country. the u.s. has a role to ban cockfighting in all of us territories including puerto rico where the sport has a very long tradition. this is an industry that three percent more than eighteen million dollars in our economy and also more than twenty seven thousand direct and indirect jobs on the line so we're talking about how distressful is that the economic situation in ireland but then we're approving another federal regulation without eve

r.c. peoples police used tear gas to disperse the protesters this morning we are told that the leaders of this youth group has organized this process this youth group is called loose just so we're told it's been. tried and true groups and that it will continue to test. and till then the top of it should be since that decision catherine we know is your son number will not be able to vote in the upcoming elections how's this going down with the opposition generally who we know well not exactly the mindset of a. yes we've just had a press on and that was held by. folks for a friend of the must have this is quite a list and that is behind martin for you now these areas where there are elections before and these are strongholds of martin but you know and basically of the press conference they called for a general strike they told congolese people to stay at home on friday don't come to work stay at home don't open your eyes. and. stay there. and protest this dish on basic facts that actually talking about one point two million soldiers in this is a country where the election it's a one route and lection still ever

has poor infrastructure it's the rainy season and the fact. that we dislike connection there with caution but we're getting a good idea of what's happening there and the r.c. as you just mentioned the congolese government is accused of suppressing the political opposition from malcolm webb who reports from the capital kinshasa. there are a two mangas told us how to have brother of rossi was killed it was earlier this year with a protest calling for the already overdue elections please stop the march that's normal here on the streets of kinshasa the capital of the democratic republic of congo. and rossi was shot. he died in hospital that's all that you talk about. but murray says his ideas live on. we will not shut up because it's our country they have guns and they can kill but drusie said they can kill all eighty million of us they can even kill me but can they kill all congolese. reraise neighborhood is it clean most people up for it is a similar story throughout most of hungary meanwhile it's my new home full of people make billions of dollars every year from the country's vast mineral wealth but people say they want change the rights groups say people