Ukraine. Protesters occupy state buildings in three cities. Oil deal in libya. Rebels agree to end an 8month petroleum blockade. The worlds biggest election has begun for the next five weeks. Indians will cast their votes in a ballot believed by many to be its most important in 30 years. More than 1500 Political Parties are contesting the general election. The two most popular parties are the congress or the b. J. P. Though popular Neither Party is expected to achieve the 272 seats needed for an outright majority. So a whole host of other middleweight and regional parties will throw support behind either of the two men depending on the concessions offered, or stay outside the government. The election marks the emergence of a party led by an anticorruption campaigner. The indian electorate is diverse and fractured. It is reflected in the political landscape. Many parties speak on behalf of their own group and the nation as a whole. We go to outside a polling station. That hearing is a v
India. Caught in the crossfire a report on the battle for control of donetsk airport. It was the second and final day of egypts president ial election former army chief who led the coup against the Muslim Brotherhood looks set to win a landslide victory. The brotherhood asked followers to boycott the vote. The European Unions lead election person says the detention of political journalists and activists is a concern. Of course, one of the main things of the democracy is the freedom of speech. Of course, we are extremely worried about the International Community, all the International Community is worried about the hundreds of death sentences pronounced by a judge. This is not the scope of an election observation. We are politicians. We have our own political judged. We regret and condemn the fact that some of your colleagues, journalist colleagues, are in gaol at this moment. As you heard, press freedom is a concern in egypt. Four al jazeera journalists remain in prison. Their trial ha
Whole flu level of risk. We visit one island that is disappearing. Reporter ill have all the sports including england humiliated by the netherlands in cricket twenty20. First pakistan reformer president mu sharif has plead not guilty. We have been following the trial. What happened. Reporter well, pleading not guilty, and his defense counsel seeking permission from the court for musharraf to leave. The judge dismissing those petitions however saying it was the prerogative of the Central Government to lift the exit control man on musharraf. And that he would be exempt from the next few headings as such as avenues free man they would have no objections. So the court putting it in the local court as far as permission to travel overseas is concerned. Again, tell us about those charges and the fact that he could be facing the Death Penalty and what hes responsible for . Reporter well, first of all, the i. D. Came on five counts. This is unprecedented because for earlier no pakistani ruler h
Troops to fight overseas. The 9 11 museum in new york is proving controversial for almost everybody. There have been dozens of if you know release in turkey for miners killed in an eggs motion on tuesday. The president has been visiting the site where 282 people lost their lives. He protectioned sympathies, but many are angry about poor Safety Standards. The main labor unions called a strike and there have been protests in other parts of the country. This is the nearest big city to where the accident happened. We can go to our correspondent in istanbul at the moment, but first, lets go where the worst mining disaster has occurred. More burials today and the rescue operation or the recovery operation continues. Into this mix comes the president. The president has been visiting the mine shaft behind me. The situation there still very depressing, because its so long since theyve had a rescued live person come before the crowds. In fact, more than 18 hours now, were told. Were now in a pos
Positive sign to protect Media Freedom in egypt. Unfortunately they have not gone free. Peter for Media Freedom and stay with us, we will be talking about this of course at length as people react to the news that the Egyptian Court handed down the verdict of 7 years in jail to peter greste, fehmy and mohamed and they accused with, well, im hearing now we will look at more reaction from a person following this on social media. Reporter im struggling to keep up with this one because its enormous and feels like unversatile condemnation and i bring up the hash tag on twitter, it refreshes with 20 new tweets pretty much every second and im not seeing anything that says they agree with what happened, time to boycott egypt but the job there and people say they are sickened by what they are seeing coming out of cairo today and we see an absolute spike on the twitter map and this is the map that shows you where free ajam is twittering and this is close to the levels we saw on the global day of