it is not just a tuareg territory. the tuareg have divisions.their leadership is weak, it is not clear who is going to represent them in any sort of talks. the rank-and-file, it will not take kindly to some of the suggestions. if the new president goes in there with the military as a strongman, that could backfire very dangerously. the military is not welcome in the north. it is hopeless, it is part of the problem. >> can the military make a strong showing anywhere at this point? >> the longer they are kept in barracks, the better. french troops in the area will be there for a wild. they can probably hold any tension or conflict. >> they will only be there for a few months, to be honest. >> is the army goes in there in its present state, it is a rag bag army, to put it crudely, it has been badly led with the exceptions of one or two commanders, which ironically come from the north. by and large, there is a lot of ill will, a lot of bad blood between the army and the local population. >> a lot of mistrust and misunderstanding. >> some of the area

year storm while that included a coup and a french-led military intervention against islamist and tuareg rebels. >> after the voting, the counting. a polling station -- at polling stations across mali ballots are checked, with the second round of the presidential election apparently going to plan. gone more smoothly in the second round in the first. in the second round, everyone is passed off normally. there've not been any complaints and have not been any irregularities. >> this is the man widely expected to win. former prime minister ibrahim k eita got 40% of the first-round vote and received endorsements of almost all the other candidates. his opponent is the country's former finance minister, souma ila cisse. whoever does win will have much leastir plate, not dealing with a shattered economy, a separatist movement in the north of the country, and finding their way home for the 2000 or so refugees who remain in neighboring mauritania, niger, and burkina faso. many of them forced to flee after a turbulent year from mali. a coup in march 2012 followed by an uprising in islamist and tuar

there have been many grievances with the torrid population -- tuareg population. and he's the last to fight corruption in the government, provide jobs for everybody and generally turn the state of the government back to what it was. >> the unrest in egypt continues with police using tear gas on the ground in cairo this tuesday. it was those who protested his removal from -- morsi's removal from power six weeks ago. supporters of mohamed morsi and opponents through rocks and projectiles at one another. morsi protesters gathered outside several government buildings. staff pushed them back. >> were inside the ministry when some religious scholars arrive and demanded to see the minister. one by one, they forced their way into the building. the secretary told them to stop. they hit the women. we came to the help of the women and through the scholars out of the building. >> back at their encampment where they have to fight the powers that they disburse, morsi is working to be reinstated as president. >> god willing, history will repeat itself and in egypt will lead the

it does not split aundribal lines, even in the north where the tuareg want their homeland. who do they support? this >> it is how stable it becomes. >> they have not made any kind of call for a particular person. >> we will be visiting the country. let's talk about the russia, the usaf air. e u.s.-russia relationship is looking at that much touted reboot. this could hinder progress on major world issues that involve these two nations. their fingers are in every pie, good and bad, across the globe. >> there is a lot of theater that they mentioned. they want to put up a show of a crisis. i will not meet with them. secretary of defense will meet his colleague. all of the context, the professional levels will continue. they don't want to push it too far. for the moment, both parties are staging a crisis. >> who has come off with egg on their face? >> i will say that obama was the winner. there is a lot of talk about how this is theater. there are many who think that this is overreach and overreaction. i never underestimate how important these personal relations are. in pushing

it was elements of the army who staged a coup last year following the tuareg rebellion. although the movement, the mlna appears to put its disputes to one side, the disagreements have not disappeared completely. that is something he is keen to defuse. >> the first, following the ideas of peace and tolerance that we can build a new democracy that allows everybody to find their place. >> reporter: the place of the foreign ministry in malicious will also be an important question. most of their troops have gonl and have been rye placed by u.n. peace keepers. ones in office, president kata will have to oversee a an economy that is ailing and one of the poorest in the world. credits promised aid for reconstruction but that can only go so far in a country where life expectancy is only 53 and one in three lives below the poverty line. mr. kata's term will begin when he is sworn in at the beginning of september. zoc nick kane, al jazeera. >> a look at the weather. richard. >>> northeastern asia, clouds still threat nipping. these shots come from hi long nang problems of and same