cast their vote the opposition however believes that number is inflated former opposition leader sam rainsy now living in exile tweeted that no credible election observer would confirm an election process that was quote falsified from the outset. for a majority of cambodians unsent is the only leader they've known he began his career as a military commander for cambodia's camaro rouge but as the regime carried out genocide on its own people can send defected to vietnam to help overthrow his own government he was named prime minister of cambodia in one thousand nine hundred five when he lost the country's first elections in one thousand nine hundred three he dismissed the results and refused to step down. after thirty three years as prime minister he remains firmly at the helm. that. was before there were so many competitors but now there's just one. tell me i hope this country in the future will have a real democracy not fake. so counting appeared little more than a formality just six hours after polls closed the ruling party claimed victory for the sixth time. extreme summer temperatures i

but after fleeing to vietnam he returned as a leader of a rebel army to defeat a common ruge sam rainsy is the former leader of the cambodian national rescue party and the president of the cambodia national rescue movement and joins us via skype from paris we appreciate your time so how would you characterize the the call for the boycott and how it actually turned out. you know what's not a surprise you thought of. easily war but we allowed only a real challenge so not to an election year shero action how would you like the international community to respond to this election the election results. united nations has already set. up an. election any u.s. european union head started to work a section i didn't say. the middle and. finally. curly i expect those of us actions will get. hotter in the ones that you casts or you can't eat us actually not a lower jaw ringing up one side and you got it so what what impact do you hope that those sanctions will have practically do you wanted to give the opposition a voice what would you like to see happen as a result of sanctions do you see that the

that in the comments from the leadership in that media conference in jakarta we also heard from sam rainsy he is former president of the c n r p he lives in self-imposed exile in paris in an interview after the results were confirmed on sunday night he said that he would like to see peaceful street protests against the election it is difficult though down to see how that can be achieved right now there has been a vibrant proteus culture at times over the years but often those protests political protests have been met with violent crackdowns by the police and by the military including after the last general election in two thousand and thirteen when the see an r.p. almost won and given the climate at the moment it is difficult to see how any protests significant protest can be mobilized also taking into account as i mentioned that most of the leaders of the c.n.r. p. and now living overseas there's really no one here in cambodia to organize those protests so i think they will continue down the path of trying to pressure governments into taking action the united states passed last week in th

numbers turning up to vote than perhaps they expected we have heard through a series of tweets from sam rainsy he's the exiled former leader of the c.n.r. peace saying that this senseless victory does nothing to resolve the political crisis that cambodia faces as a result of the regime's totalitarian drift over the past twelve months so he issued a series of tweets after the polls closed a few hours ago so when we hear the first results. we're expecting that at any moment now as you say the counting is well underway those results will be very much provisional we expect the official results to come out sometime in the next couple of months i should say a couple of weeks from the election committee but many people are saying look this is a formality anyway what people will be interested in though is the number of spoilt ballots because while as we mentioned the turnout appears to be quite high we are hearing that there were quite a lot of spoiled ballots of people turning up because they felt they had to they were forced into coming along out of fear of perhaps retribution if they did not but th

his increasingly all thora tyrian rule that seems set to continue wane hey al-jazeera phnom penh sam rainsy is the former leader of the cambodian national rescue party he says it's becoming increasingly isolated in the international community. the united nations has already set. up at. any u.s. european union head. to text sections how did it so. it gains that mr hu and his family and kearney i expect those of us actions will get there if i was there in the groups at once that you cards or you can't eat us actually and if not a lower jaw. and. it will be minister the. way out there was only of from the rest of that letter and only the part of china sole owns and now insult has only it is a part of china but that is a not enough eventually. we lent one sat down. still ahead on al-jazeera i. was angry at iraq weeks of protests over living conditions forced the electricity minister al. i didn't realize how much. my home to me burning and broken more people are playing it wildfires in california show no rest. most of the rain in china is hanging around south of the moment we're still getting oc

well as you mentioned there has been a call for protests that has come mainly from sam rainsy he is the former president of the c.n.r. p. he's in self-imposed exile in france avoiding arrest over a variety of charges and convictions against against him he said in an interview after the election results were announced that he would like to see peaceful protests take place it's difficult to see how that can happen really for a couple of reasons it's very dangerous we've seen violent crackdowns against political protests many times in the past in cambodia including after the last general election in two thousand and thirteen which the c.m. api almost one in one would imagine that that would be the case again if there were to be protests this time and the other problem is daryn is that none of the senior leaders really are in cambodia any more senior leaders of the c.n.r. the most of them fled late last year fearing a wrist following the arrest all of the current president of the party kim who's still in trouble and in jail awaiting trial on treason charges we are expecting to hear more fro

capital jakarta the former president of that party himself who lives in self-imposed exile in france sam rainsy issued a statement on twitter following the election he said that it was a senseless victory and referred to cambodia as a totalitarian regime that it's been on a totalitarian totalitarian drift over the past twelve months so certainly some strong words and we'll wait to see whether they can encourage people on the ground to start to take some more action ok when thank you. a teenage palestinian activist who was jailed for kicking and slapping an israeli soldier has been released from prison she seventeen year old i had to me she's urging people to continue to fight against the israeli occupation of palestinian lands under simmons has the story from nabil salah in the occupied west bank. free of dread jail ordeal much the same as hundreds experienced by young palestinians every year but the case of a had to mimi is profoundly different with her mother now a man who shared jail time with her she was greeted by her father i had to mimi is already being portrayed by palestinians as an ic