north and northeast thailand have in the past delivered election victories for taksin the support comes mainly from the rural and farming communities they voted for him because he was one of the first politicians to pay attention to them he gave them cheaper health care subsidies his rivals criticized his populous policies calling them a form of vote by but they never managed to catch up to him at the ballot boxes even after a years in exile taksin remains popular. politician on pongsudhirak is the director of the institute of security and international studies at the university he says that there is a long road ahead until a true democracy is returned to thailand. we have to realize that this is a step along the way it's not a return to democracy as such is a democratic exercise in order to regain a democratic path there's a long road ahead so we have to be mindful and sober about what's to come it's not a genuine democracy isn't democracy democratic transition and military custody i mean this election you know we see a lot of all faces veteran m.p.'s the constitution is stacked in fav

shinawatra taksin and his loyalists have won every election since two thousand and one even after he was ousted in a military coup in two thousand and six his sister became prime minister in twenty eleven but she too was removed from power in another military takeover in twenty fourteen both live abroad and self-imposed exile after being convicted in absentia on a range of charges directs the charges only one of several political parties linked to the show what's but its demise could make a difference in key districts in the upcoming election well al jazeera is wayne hay joins us live from bangkok outside the constitutional court when what have we heard from the judges so far. yes well that by the nine constitutional court judges was finished being read out just a few moments ago and it was a unanimous decision all knowing voted in favor of the decision to dissolve the tie rocks a charter party the other decision they had to make which were the band the leaders of the party the fourteen executive committee members from politics at least ten years they didn't you know them silly but t

the outskirts of cello might specifically at a polling station in san campaigning the hometown of taksin shinawatra former prime minister of thailand taksin and his allies have not lost a single election since two thousand and one but they've been removed from power either through the courts or in coups since people here and all over thailand have been waiting for five years to once again be able to cost their votes. and i'm very excited it's been a long time since i think i got up early this morning to get ready i've got my documents with me and i'm ready to exercise my fate. i want the country to move forward in the right direction and without any corruption best the way it should be . north and northeast thailand have in the past delivered election victories for toxin the support comes mainly from the rural and farming communities they voted for him because he was one of the first politicians to pay attention to them he gave them cheaper health care subsidies his rivals criticized his populous policies calling them a form of vote but they never managed to catch up to him at the ballot

after all thai rak such odds is already the third party affiliated with ousted former prime minister taksin shinawatra that gets the boot by thailand's constitutional court many party supporters view the ban as politically motivated they argue. as we now know to roll tide long ago and was therefore eligible to run it when the king voiced his dismay there was little room left for maneuver with today's sentence more than two hundred fifty m.p. candidates have been removed from the race reducing chances of the talks in town to win less than three weeks before thailand's long awaited general elections the country's political future is up in the air. reporting from bangkok and reacting to the verdict of the coster from court to our princess. sad and depressing we stay in thailand where an unlikely set of symbols is making a splash in popular culture not zero iconic. images of freely available us for our times representative of a regime that murdered some six million jews during the second world war the symbols of the band orchestra in many countries but in thailand it's another story . in thaila

the lead and the second second place is per tie that's the party linked to exiled prime minister taksin should know what he was deposed in a coup in two thousand and six they're trailing behind by about half a million votes but that's not the full picture and in terms of number of seats allocated or in terms of number of seats. that the there have been in terms of number of seats the it's the reverse per thai party is ahead by about ten seats but this is only the three hundred fifty constituency seats in the lower house that's not the full picture because there are another one hundred fifty seats and these are seats that will be allocated based on the number of votes. but based on the votes received but these are also caps it's part of a complicated electoral process that the military had put in place which critics say was designed to put the per thai party at a disadvantage but we expect a clearer picture to emerge in the next couple of hours the election commission has said it will hold a press conference later this afternoon it was supposed to make an announcement on sunday night a c

if they do get to come up with large numbers and manage to get a majority what is the prospect of taksin wing parties being able to be a form or become part of the government. the opinion polls i mean taken very close to polling day just before polling start to have to put the high in the lead but a lot of academics don't think they will be able to get enough seats to be able to form a government on their own and so as far as scott mentioned it's very likely that we will see a lot of tense negotiations medicals trading puttering for parties to come in for a coalition on the head of the thai party to their ok europe has already said at a press conference that she gave. that she hopes that the party that wins the most votes will be given an opportunity to form a coalition and so they've got their eye on the prize and they they are hoping that if they do win the majority of the votes even if it's not enough to form the next government they are going. the opportunity for the next governor wilson of the of the fight that there is in the coming new party future for that you mention this is a p

see off the challenge by the populist peo thai party which is allied to the ousted prime minister taksin chin out what. critics say that changes to the political system since the coup mean the electoral system is biased in favor of parties aligned with the military after casting his own vote the hometown backed prime minister appeared to encourage a large turnout that it would be my hope everyone will photo day to exercise their rights everyone wants democracy and that means everyone should have failed them selves of those rights in transparency and the country will be developed through our own hands. i can say that and so i. will depend on the people who. i think. be convened in this election let's bring to delhi correspondent joins us from bangkok bus john you've been talking to the people coming to the polls many of them first time voters what kind of change are they hoping for. both think first of all the whole lot of people here are just tired of not being able to vote so they're excited about the fact they're many are excited about the fact that they get to go to the polls at all i

their prime minister candidate and then put die that is again led by exiled former prime minister taksin shinawatra they are pretty much neck and neck and i say that because you know you see that in the last numbers are ahead in the popular vote but who is ahead in the seat vote and that is really the more important number because that determines who will be forming the next government here in thailand but you know we still have some time to go we have about five hours before we expect a press conference from the election commission to release unofficial results we were expecting that on sunday night that didn't happen and then the counting was paused overnight but we're seeing things will probably hopefully kick back in in these hours before this press conference there's a website that they have that we can see the as the as the numbers are tabulated but again unofficial figures were hoping in about five hours time bring some clarity to that but again neck and neck with these two top parties one is surprised though two is future forward now this is a brand new party this election cycle

led by a former army chief called a slim lead over the type party linked to former prime minister taksin shinawatra final results are expected on monday. a political rally in istanbul by turkey's pro kurdish h d p party has attracted tens of thousands of people kurds hope to play a decisive role in local elections next sunday the governing party held a joint event with the nationalist party next week's vote as a key test for president wretch of trying to one. members of australia and new zealand's indigenous communities have come together in sydney to show solidarity with the victims of last week's going to tax on two mosques in christ church has announced it will hold a national remembrance service on march twenty ninth for the fifty. people who were killed in the attacks and the mozambican government says half a million people have been affected by the devastating sight bone die more than seven hundred have been confirmed dead after the storm raged across mozambique zimbabwe and malawi but the true death toll is believed to be much higher efforts are still underway to assist survivors.

look now at some of the other stories making news around the world thailand's former prime minister taksin shinawatra has accused the country's military of rigging sunday's general election an international election monitoring group also allege that the vote counting process was quote deeply flawed. election commission has delayed releasing preliminary election results until friday. the pentagon has authorized one billion us dollars of funding for president all trumps controversial border wall defense officials say the money would pay for roughly ninety kilometers of fences and infrastructure along the us mexico border in february declared a state of emergency after congress rejected his budget plans. mexican president. over the door has urged the batek and spain to apologize for the conquest of central america's indigenous peoples five hundred years ago you're standing with his wife in front of a maya ruin over a door said he hopes the request would prompt and historical reconciliation. now over the last few days tens of thousands of europeans have been protesting a proposed reform of cop

but it would not win an outright majority the party has links to the ousted former prime minister taksin shinawatra. let's bring in t w correspondent bustin hati he joins us from bangkok. exit polls indicate a victory of the opposition party where does that leave a country. well it depends on the call if they get enough seats to form a coalition to elect the prime minister and that seems rather unlikely at the moment. as you can see behind me the votes are being counted right now in these minutes and we expect preliminary results within the next few hours we have these exit polls now we have to be careful with that because we don't really know how reliable they are the electoral system is extremely complicated in thailand and so that all of these preliminary are not preliminary results but exit polls of course are subject to change but if they turn out to be true and if the party is the strongest force in the new parliament but they don't have the majority to elect the next prime minister that would mean there could be a political gridlock because. the words being voted for right now is

party led by former army chief holds a slim lead over the type party linked to former prime minister taksin shinawatra final results are expected on monday. members of australia and new zealand's indigenous communities have come together in sydney to show solidarity with the victims of last week's gun attacks on two mosques in christ church new zealand has announced it will hold a national remembrance service on march twenty ninth for the fifty people killed in the attacks. and the mozambican government says half a million people have been affected by the devastating cyclon you die and more than seven hundred have been confirmed dead after the storm raged across mozambique zimbabwe and malawi the true death toll is believed to be much higher efforts are still underway to assist survivors. well our correspondent has been in zimbabwe taking a look at the aftermath of cycling there he sent us this report from some of the communities hardest hit by the storm and the severe flooding that it cost. a once bustling village reduced to a rocky field kobo was home to more than three hundred residents

join to a party whose leader you can see version here it's linked to exiled former prime minister taksin should know what he was ousted by the army in two thousand and six as was his sister eight years later a third group is led by the anti tax and democrat party which argues that it can form a government that's neutral there's also the future forward party it's charismatic billionaire front man is popular among the younger people while florence louis is following the story for us and joins us from china my so you're in a pulse of thailand that's a stronghold for tax and show us and parties linked to him have won every election since two thousand and one was there prospects in this election talk us through how this whole system works. all the military government has been in power over the last five years and since that time they've tilted the playing field advantage voters will be voting all five hundred members of the lower house and all of those number three hundred fifty are constituency seats they get to vote directly for these members but then there are also one hundred fifty known

is the party that's backed by the military the thai party is the party that's linked to taksin shinawatra former prime minister of this country who was removed in a coup in two thousand and six now the analysts and academics had said all along even before the election results of the unofficial election results were announced that the military had already told to the playing field to its advantage as you mentioned not just being able to appoint the two hundred fifty members of the upper house the senate says but also in essentially placing a limit cap on the number of seats a party can win in the lower house and that's given it at unfair advantage right now having said that and let's also say that no one no one party is likely going to be able to win enough to write home government on its own so which means that in the next few weeks we're likely to see very intense negotiations while parties trying to cobble together a coalition indeed the area where you want let's talk about that area where you are trying my which has traditionally voted for the former prime minister thaksin shinawatra t

could have tossed in two thousand and six the notary overthrew the government of then prime minister taksin shinawatra accusing him of abusing power and disrespecting the monarchy elections were held in two thousand and eleven but two years later the country was rocked by a major street protest government demonstrators and red shirts faced off against the yellow shirt protesters you might remember that the yellow shirts backing the monarchy in two thousand and fourteen the military again seized power and promised to quickly hold new elections but has delayed them up until now the country will vote under a new constitution that gives the generals control over the senate and without a big say in who ultimately become prime minister. and hearty reports from bangkok . panettone. is something of a political rock star in thailand. a son of one of the country's richest families he set up his own political party a year ago. his declared goal. military rule bring back democratic rights and create a more equal society. these ideas resonate especially with young. this is the first time i get to fight

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is the reverse it is the per thai party and that's the party linked to the former prime minister taksin shinawatra who although living in self-imposed exile still is a strong political force here his party or the party linked to him is in the lead they're ahead by about knowing seats now this is in respect of the three hundred and fifty directly elected seats in the no one house but that's not the entire makeup of the lower house there's still a hundred and fifty feet left to be allocated depending on the number of votes that a party receives but that's a cap based on this it's a very complex formula and it was designed by the military government when they were in power over the last five years a system that critics say is designed to handicap the thai party but we expect a clearer picture to emerge in the next couple of hours when the election commission holds a press conference there in chiang mai which is the hometown of former prime minister taksin genoa what's been happening up there where you are. that's right this is an area which is considered a political stronghold for tots and

is the third time the constitutional court has dissolved the party backed by former prime minister taksin shinawatra in fact six out of the nine judges that made this ruling were also involved in one or both of those previous cases jackson was removed from power in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile it would in a jail sentence for abusing his power which he says is politically motivated. charge was seen as a potential coalition partner for his main party put a tie which was in power during the last coup in two thousand and fourteen the court verdict will be seen as yet another move against the shinawatra clan and its influence on politics by the military and bangkok's elite that surround it. all being as we designed the constitution all that development that has happened. was designed to keep acting out the dissolution of thai rex a charge made galvanize support for this you know what's well deepening the country's political divide it seems thailand is set for another unpredictable and potentially volatile political periods wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. one person has been

after all thai rocks the job is already the third party affiliated with ousted former prime minister taksin shinawatra that gets the boot by thailand's constitutional court many party supporters view the ban as politically motivated they argue prince's rubbed head we now need to roll tide long ago and was there for eligible to run but when the king voiced his dismay there was little room left for maneuver with today's sentence more than two hundred fifty m.p. candidates have been removed from the race reducing chances of the tocsin camp to win less than three weeks before thailand's long awaited general elections the country's political future is up in the air. now some other stories making news around the world a french court has found the country's most senior catholic cleric guilty of covering up sexual abuse allegations cardinal phillip home was handed a six month suspended sentence for failing to inform authorities about accusations against a pedophile priest that priest has confessed to abusing boys in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's and will be trying to later this year.

the past if they dream off is when former prime minister taksin shinawatra was in power he was removed in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile avoiding jail for corruption but still in control of the per thai party talks in china why it came to power on the back of populist policies in areas like this in doing so he spoke to communities that have long felt neglected or treated as second class by the elite in the capital bangkok he still enjoys a lot of support here and the odds of his party winning the popular vote again are good but forming the government will be difficult the military will hand pick two hundred fifty seats in the upper house of parliament. that means a big head start for the military backed. party it may struggle to enthuse crowds in the north of the country but one of the main candidates here believes toxin is no longer a factor people are only concerned about how they're going to support their family when i go out and campaign people say they've moved on from the past they want to stay in the present. but at the per time rally they're looking in all di

competition among others it has filed cases against a poor thai party led by former prime minister taksin. he faces corruption charges he says are politically motivated and lives in exile was put ty and its predecessors have won every general election since two thousand and one the whole into. the judiciary can certainly the straw a these pro talks and parties. so in the end. the election will certainly be a spectacle that people can use to express themselves and be happy that they had a voice but in the outcome the haunter wins again i would say some feel that the military government has been clever in exploiting the divisions here in thai society but some say part of the blame rests on the biggest political parties the democrats put die. the supporters of these two parties are known as the yellow shirts and red shirts and their rivalry has been the basis for nearly two decades of instability and led to two military coups three hundred sixty seven seats is the magic number needed to gain control and form a government opinion polls indicate no single party will reach it so it's likely a c

family down thompson that parties have not lost a single election since two thousand and one but taksin and his sister both former prime ministers of this country have been removed from power either in a coup or by the courts in the last fifteen years so this is a much highly anticipated election especially for this region it is also a much delayed election and when the military seized power in two thousand and fourteen it promised to hold polls within a year or two well it's been five years so people are eager to be able to cast their ballots early voting but took place a week ago saw high voter turnout of nearly eighty seven percent and forecasters are taking it that as an indication that the turnout will be high on sunday as well . florence as you said here in the north where the the chena want from where you do enjoy strong support are people in northern thailand of the optimistic of a fair results. i beg your pardon are they optimistic of a fair result of more roommates and see the question i'm saying are people in the area where you're joining us from are they optimistic of a fair

the past if they dream off is when former prime minister taksin shinawatra was in power he was removed in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile avoiding jail for corruption but still in control of the purge thai party types in china what came to power on the back of populist policies in areas like this in doing so he spoke to communities that have long felt neglected or treated as second class by the elite in the capital bangkok he still enjoys a lot of support here and the odds of his party winning the popular vote again are good but forming the government will be difficult the military will hand pick two hundred fifty feet in the upper house of parliament. that means a big head start for the military backed party it may struggle to enthuse crowds in the north of the country but one of the main candidates here believes toxin is no longer a factor people are only concerned about how they're going to support the family when i go out and campaign people say they've moved on from the past they want to stay in the present. but at the per time rally they're looking in all direct

antigens a party whose leader you can see very seeing here it's linked to exiled former prime minister taksin chenault what he was ousted by the army in two thousand and six as well as his sister is later a third group is led by the anti-tax and democrat party which argues that it can form a government that's neutral and is also the future forward party its charismatic billionaire front man is popular among younger people well al jazeera scott hyla is joining us live now from bangkok scott as voting draws to a close in the next hour how's it all been going. so far so good. very smooth from what we're hearing there have been no reports of any kind of destructions no reports of discrepancies of any sort and as you said we're in the last hour of polling i were at a polling station in central bangkok and see behind me it's interesting we've gone to several throughout the city there six thousand polling positions throughout bangkok city we've gone to several of them and we've kind of seen something like this where it's a little bit empty there has been a kind of a steady flow but it's never really

look at some other stories making headlines around the world today thailand's former prime minister taksin shinawatra has accused the country's military of rigging last sunday's general election and international elections monitoring group also allege that the boat counting process was quote deeply flawed thailand's election commission has delayed releasing luminary election results until friday. chinese president xi jinping and his french counterpart amenable my call and have held talks in paris china announced a huge purchase of aircraft from air bus and mccollum voiced hopes for quote a fair political partnership with china the new president she is due to meet with other european leaders in paris as well. the pentagon which has authorized one billion u.s. dollars of funding for president all trumps controversial border wall defense officials said the money would pay for roughly ninety kilometers of fences and infrastructure along the us mexico border in february trump declared a state of emergency after congress rejected his budget plans through mexican president andres manuel lopez obr

mr taksin has a point. it seems unlikely they will have influenced the overall result. dramatic shifts in voting patterns in this election. a lot of the support went to the future forward party which is even more radical in some ways and is likely to ally with his party anyway. the overall anti— military vote may not be a lot different to what it would have been. will it bring political stability? i don't think so. the fundamental split in thailand is between people happy with military rule and people who want change although they are now dividing their loyalties between two parties rather than one. the problem is, in the end, there will be a lot of negotiating and jostling to get middle parties to enable a coalition but that coalition, partly because of all of the concessions and bargaining, may be unstable. the question is will the military use its trump card? if it does, if it can't get a majority in the lower house, it may cause an outrage. it is still uncertain how this still divided country will marry —— manage a new electoral system that hasn't left a clear resul

that the constitutional court has moved to dissolve a party backed by the former thai prime minister taksin chynna what he was removed in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile this will be seen by the thai rexx a charge party and its supporters as yet another move against the should of what clan and its influence of a thai politics of course in france has found a catholic cardinal guilty of failing to act on allegations of child sex abuse and his diocese a. prominent church figure and five others stood trial accused of failing to protect children from alleged crimes committed by a priest in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's. syrian refugees in jordan are taking a case against the syrian government to the international criminal course they accuse president assad's forces of crimes against humanity saying they were forced to flee because of life threatening attacks they also want the court to look at a wider passon of rights abuses including torture rape chemical attacks and disappearances syria has not signed up to the i.c.c. but jordan is a member which may give the c

not knowing what the past they dream off is when former prime minister taksin shinawatra was in power he was removed in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile avoiding jail for corruption but still in control of the per thai party types in china what came to power on the back of populist policies in areas like this in doing so he spoke to communities that have long felt neglected or treated as second class by the elite in the capital bangkok he still enjoys a lot of support here and the odds of his party winning the popular vote again are good but forming the government will be difficult the military will hand pick two hundred fifty seats in the upper house of parliament. that means a big head start for the military backed. party it may struggle to enthuse crowds in the north of the country but one of the main candidates here believes toxin is no longer a factor people are only concerned about how they're going to support their family when i go out and campaign people say they've moved on from the past they want to stay in the present. but at the per time rally they're look

days before voting started just at that time and that's the party linked to former prime minister taksin chenault one who together with his allies have not lost a single election since two thousand and one that's just it but they would be in the lead so this is unexpected indeed. charges that current prime minister who. is the party the military by party that's now in the lead has said that. to vote for him would be to vote for continued stability for thailand kenya's government is warning that more than a million people are at risk of starvation as parts of the country endure a severe drought conditions in thirteen counties are continuing to worsen with widespread vegetation loss and no across fields australia is being hit by its second major storm in two days a cycle in veronica crosses the northwest cold said port hedland it's moving slowly and the combination of high tides and strong winds could cause heavy flooding a decision from the u.s. attorney general is expected any time on what details will be published from the motor report into russian interference in donald trump's electio

all thai rocks that shot is already the third party affiliated with ousted former prime minister taksin shinawatra that gets the boot by thailand's constitutional court many party supporters view the ban as politically motivated they argue princes rudd had we now know to roll tide long ago and was there for eligible to run the. the king voiced his dismay there was little room left for maneuver with today's sentence more than two hundred fifty m.p. candidates have been removed from the race reducing chances of the talks in camp two when less than three weeks before thailand's long awaited general elections the country's political future is up in the air. florian nish reporting for us there you're watching the news still to come natural beauty and a manmade conflict our correspondent visits the himalayan valley of kashmir once again the backdrop for the decades old animosity between india and pakistan. but first let's catch up on some other stories making news around the world a french court has found the country's most senior catholic cleric guilty of covering up sexual abuse allegations

that the constitutional court has moved to dissolve a party backed by the former thai prime minister taksin chynna what he was removed in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile this will be seen by the thai rexx a charge party and its supporters as yet another move against the shin of what clan and its influence over thai politics brains coming california rob is there good news in this there is because a heightened snow and this is snow pack or given the summer water but as you say rain and it's not just kind of foreigners in the whole of the southwest really i mean there's even rain in death valley one of the hottest prices on earth and not particularly wet but it was also rain in utah not slow coming in country but canyon country this is not normally a river this is a snow canyon in utah and of course this only happens when you get these segments on the songs but they have been fairly repeatable this is the massacre that is going across most of it tends to forage at first catch the sierra nevada as snow or rain this is sun nor apparently in land from san francisco and there we'

well initially there was shock and disbelief really because this is a tough and strong hole in taksin is the deposed prime minister he was ousted in a coup in two thousand and six but he is linked to purge type party the main rival to the pro military groups and he and his allies have never been defeated in an election since two thousand and one noun initial remarks suggest that by initial remarks my officials from poto suggest that they're going to be challenging the results even though they have got the greatest number of seats but they there are questions about voting irregularities they've said that they want to inspect and disqualified votes the election commission has said that there are about five point five percent of disqualified votes including overseas votes that did not make it back to the country in time to be counted and that's pretty high number so there's already a sense that not only are they in shock and disbelief that they may not win this election but that they are going that well they're not going to be so ready to accept the results if they don't go their way or

of the us versus them attitude that's been in place in this political system for quite some time taksin chin what after all is a man who has spent years fighting against the establishment against the military and as you say the last move by the military came in two thousand and fourteen when it removed the government of the system. all right when a lie first said they're in bangkok. now a chinese telecom giant oil way is taking the u.s. to court for restricting government agencies there from using weiwei technology us considers its products a security threat and says china can use its equipment for spying a jim brown has more from change in from the year while ways success is clear just part of it sprawling complex in the special economic zone of june. while ways name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held a news conference inviting selected media organizations including al jazeera to confirm that whil

is the third time the constitutional court has dissolved the party backed by former prime minister taksin shinawatra in fact six out of the nine judges that made this ruling were also involved in one or both of those previous cases jackson was removed from power in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile it would in a jail sentence for abusing his power which he says is politically motivated. charge was seen as a potential coalition partner for his main party put a tie which was in power during the last coup in two thousand and fourteen the court verdict will be seen as yet another move against the shinawatra clan and its influence on politics by the military and bangkok's elite that surround it. the holding as we design of the constitution all the development that have happened. was designed to keep talks in the dissolution of thai rex a charge made galvanize support for the chena wants well deepening the country's political divide it seems thailand is set for another unpredictable and potentially volatile political periods wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. still ahead on the bulle

is the third time the constitutional court has dissolved the party backed by former prime minister taksin shinawatra in fact six out of the nine judges that made this ruling were also involved in one or both of those previous cases jackson was removed from power in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile it would in a jail sentence for abusing his power which he says is politically motivated. charge was seen as a potential coalition partner for his main party put a tie which was in power during the last coup in two thousand and fourteen the court verdict will be seen as yet another move against the shinawatra clan and its influence on politics by the military and bangkok's elite that surround it. all being as we designed the constitution all the development that has happened. was designed to keep taxiing out the dissolution of thai rex a charge made galvanize support for this you know what's well deepening the country's political divide it seems thailand is set for another unpredictable and potentially volatile political periods wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. the medical charity

just days before voting started that suggested that unless the party linked to former prime minister taksin should know what who together with its allies have not lost a single election since two thousand and one that's just it that they would be in the lead so this is unexpected indeed now cry you china charges the current prime minister and who. that's the party the military by party that's now in the lead has said that to vote for him would be to vote for continued stability for thailand kenya's government is warning that more than a million people are risk of starvation a sponsor the country endure a severe drought conditions in thirteen counties are continuing to worsen with widespread vegetation loss and low across e.o.'s miley's armed forces chief then several top commanders have been sacked after more than one hundred thirty four people women and children among them were killed in an attack on a village the prime minister announced a sackings after an emergency cabinet meeting a decision from the us attorney general is expected any time on what details will be published from the mil

and seven and two thousand and eight dissolved parties that are linked to the former prime minister taksin chin of what who was ousted in a coup in two thousand and six. iraq's a charge the party that is being debated today is also backed by tanks and you know what so this would be he's. dissolved by the court if indeed they do find that way today. al jazeera is way in hay in bangkok for us watching these developments thank you wayne. israel central elections committee has disqualified an alliance of palestinian israeli parties from running in next month's elections and follows a petition filed by the prime minister's likud party and two others they accuse the run by coalition of supporting violent palestinian resistance and backing hezbollah poll suggested it would win four seats in israel's parliament the supremes court will have the final say while the palestinian teenager has been killed by israeli fire along the gaza border overnight fighter jets later struck several sites belonging to hamas in southern gaza israel's army says it was in response to explosive devices being sent across

days before voting started have suggested that and that's the party linked to former prime minister taksin shin on what who together with his allies have not lost a single election since two thousand and one had suggested but they would be in the lead so this is unexpected indeed. child who is the current prime minister and who . is the party the military by party that's now in the lead has said that. to vote for him would be to vote for continued stability for thailand and perhaps it appears that voters may have may have bought into that story voters may have agreed that perhaps he is the leader that can deliver stability to thailand but it is a completely unexpected result because it wasn't what we were expecting and even though the military had in the last five years while it was in power have tilted the playing field to their vantage many analysts had suggested that her tie would still be in the lead and that even though they may not win enough seats or votes to form the next government they would have a chance to form a coalition government but now that appears uncertain ok the area w

is the third time the constitutional court has dissolved the party backed by former prime minister taksin shinawatra in fact six out of the nine judges that made this ruling were also involved in one or both of those previous cases jackson was removed from power in a coup in two thousand and six and lives in exile it would in a jail sentence for abusing his power which he says is politically motivated. charge will see. as a potential coalition partner for his main party put a tie which was in power during the last coup in two thousand and fourteen the court verdict will be seen as yet another move against the shinawatra clan and its influence on politics by the military and bangkok's elite that surround it. the holding as we designed the constitution all the development that has happened. was designed to tax in the dissolution of thai rex a charge made galvanize support for this you know what's well deepening the country's political divide it seems thailand is set for another unpredictable and potentially volatile political periods wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. still ahead on ideas there