The armed citizen this is al jazeera live from london also coming up fifty people are killed in twenty four hours in government and russian as strikes in syria under us votes the incumbent president won or longer hernandez is expected to stay in power. And well he used the word the pipe the pope prepares to walk a diplomatic tightrope in mammo. A major yemeni port thats held by who is the rebels has received its first food delivery three weeks off to the Saudi Led Coalition impose a total blockade on land and sea the ship entire data is carrying more than five thousand tons of flour and has been allowed in. After the coalition bowed to pressure from the un to ease the blockade and the embargo has already worsened in yemen spiraling humanitarian crisis which the u. N. Childrens agency is trying to stop by sending in one point nine million doses of vaccines in his have says yemens conflict has become a war on children and that nearly every child that is in dire need if humanitarian assistance hit a shot records. The saudis have promised to lift the blockade of the yemen port of her died four days ago but it was only on sunday that the first desperately needed Food Supplies were unloaded. And now the ship in the port of how they entered carrying flour and relief materials way and five thousand five hundred tons this is not enough for the many people needs but we hope this is a good sign to open the port operator and lift the siege and all the many provinces. Unicef says a child dies every ten minutes from preventable diseases that would equate to more than five hundred children dead in those last four days alone five thousand tons of flowers unloaded on saturday but its just a trickle too little and far far too late for the most vulnerable today it is fair to say that the yemen is one of the worst places on earth to be a child more than eleven million. Yemeni children are to be in acute need of humanitarian assistance thats almost every single yemeni boy and girl unicef says the war in yemen is sadly a war on children close to five thousand children have been killed or seriously injured in the last two and a half years and it welcomes the opening of the airport at santa it allowed us to send in the first humanitarian convoy one point nine million doses of vaccines vaccines that are urgently needed to vaccinate six hundred thousand children across yemen since the Saudi Led Coalition began fighting the hooty is in two thousand and fifteen the countrys basic infrastructure no longer exists. The blockade began on november sixth after hutu rebels fired a Ballistic Missile into saudi arabia. She said the blockade was imposed to stop weapons being smuggled into yemen but the un is warning that commercial imports of food and fuel must also resume the World Food Program says continuing to choke off those supplies could have a disastrous effect on fourteen Million People living in the remote regions of northern yemen completely unable to cope for themselves peter shop al jazeera. At least fifty people have been killed in just twenty four hours in government and russian air strikes in syria twenty three people were killed in a syrian airstrike in the damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta the area has been on the governments seat for four years and three hundred fifty thousand people there are in desperate need of aid thirty seven people were killed in russian airstrikes on a gathering of displaced people and arizona province but activists say fifteen children were among the activists the victims and some avenge of it has just returned from syria together across the border in turkey. Despite a cease fire agreement between iran turkey and russia the violence in syria does not seem to be coming to an end the airstrikes in the hooter district of damascus targeted three different residential areas according to activists on the ground the number of casualties is on the rise theyre saying that they are not able to provide help to all of the victims because they have very limited supplies inside. And a number of hospitals have also been targeted in the last few months they say that because of this siege and the Assad Government has not been allowing any medical aid or medical supplies to come in and theyre not able to treat patients as they would in a normal situation this is not the only place where strikes have taken place there also russians frights which has been a door in between the resort and this is an area where isis fighters have fled to but its not just isis fighters who fled into these areas its also civilians according to activists on the ground most of the People Killed here there are or have been civilians so its another day of violence that weve seen in syria activists had been called telling us from the ground that in the last ten days or so more than one hundred people have been killed in just the space students who to us district which is besieged by Syrian Forces and they say they dont see the violence coming to an end any time soon. Under in so voted in a president ial election which is widely expected to return the incumbent to power one on the head on this who has the center writes National Policy has been praised for bringing down the sky high murder rates and Rising Economic growth but critics say hes trying to tighten his grip on power to himself supporters a coup against the previous president s Marianna Sanchez is live for us in the capital take a six. Were coming to the end of the election day ill pose meaning meant to by now all by closing. Of the electoral tribunal and then. Holding the vote for an hour that hasnt happened here however. You know governor station in the hotel behind me. The people who are in line finished voting also traditionally. The media start. Way before. You know of course very numbers however. You know. The exit polls will be. Just before two hours we will be able to have the first exit poll first results. It will we will have them in about three hours from now is a preliminary we. Really. Reserve can rely on and we can hear. The results of this election in five hours from now when. It will have about sixty percent of the vote. Being widely seen as transparent polls do you think the results are likely to be contested. I think there will likely be. Opposition parties. For. The election and it will be really. The president. Has a lot of power that he controls the tribunals that you mystery be electoral tribunals and so on. Down in. Every every party has put at least two monitors from their parties at every polling station around the country and they say that they will wait until they have the final results. Compare their own results with the final result to be able to say that the selections were called fair and sort of. Monitoring the election of the president and wonderous. Cubans are voting in local elections a sponsor of a cycle that will end with the selection of a new president in february outgoing president raul castro has already cast his votes in the capital have on the next few months will see cubans transition from sixty years of castro family rule i mean many challenges including worsening relations with the United States you see in the Human Capital have a. The municipal elections are the only instance in which ordinary citizens can directly participate in the choosing and voting for their officials after this it is the provincial organization and then the National Assembly they each choose each other and then eventually that National Assembly or congress if you like chooses the president that one who will succeed president raul castro the last of the castros after nearly six decades to govern this country but at this level when people will be choosing for some Twelve Thousand five hundred municipal delegates among more than twenty seven thousand candidates it sounds like a lot but not a single one of them belongs to the opposition this year for the first time an unprecedented number of dissidents attempted to take part in these when a civil elections but they were not allowed to do so as in babo newspaper is reporting Robert Mugabe was granted full immunity and the payment of ten Million Dollars to convince him to step down president Zimbabwe Independent also says hes been promised he can keep all these properties to be paid his salary for the rest of his life but the ruling party. Was a special deal. Has more from harare. Officials in zanu p. F. Say that Robert Mugabe got the usual standard normal retirement package given to any former head of state were told that he wants to stay in zimbabwe he plans to do that but he is able to leave the country and go to singapore for his usual regular medical check ups hes indicated he wants to do some farming in the country and weve heard his wife grace mugabe is still planning to build the Robert Mugabe university all eyes are now on the new president. And the cabinet he is going to form some indications say that it could be as early as monday when the cabinet is announced people are wondering will he be inclusive when he work with Opposition Party leaders will he also work with other Political Parties which could indicate that he is may be genuine about being a unifying leader but some zimbabweans fear that if we see more of the old guard in cabinet it could indicate nothing really has changed on the ground and they fear is that if that is the case in things one transform quickly in terms of the economy the main thing. Who are struggling economically and financially is the economy who is the finance minister going to be they hope that individual is someone who can work with the International Community bring investment into the country create jobs and we substitute the struggling economy so. With millions turning out for elections to create a new political system and love across a separation. Couples forced to live in limbo because of. Welcome back sidney continues to enjoy its run a very warm weather temperatures of twenty five degrees or more the weather front go through melbournes a big drop in temperatures there but as we head on into choose the issue of those temperatures recovering up to twenty eight degrees warm to an oblate across Western Australia weve got dry weather perth temperatures coming back to just twenty degrees f. In the areas weve got a few showers that are affecting the tropical north otherwise all right its very quiet in this High Pressure system here so that is resulting in dry conditions quite a bit of cloud across the north island to the south island hes looking cherry drawing fine with sunshine and temperatures of twenty degrees or so in christchurch lets move up into northeastern parts of asia and here the weather is also fairly quiet moment weve got dry conditions across much of japan obviously Northern Areas not very warm. Temperature for sapporo. Minus twelve is nothing unusual for this time of the a mine five degrees seems to be over the day at the moment for beijing and temperature other forecaster observed for several days and as we had on through into choose day. Impacting for tokyo highs of eleven otherwise sunshine in seoul highs of nine. At this time. Welcome back remind of the top stories here on aljazeera a ship carrying more than five thousand tons of flour has dumped in the yemeni port of high data the first since a Saudi Led Coalition started to ease a sea and blockade russian and government astronauts have killed at least fifty people across syria its x. Targeted the areas of missing guta and there was a law on hunger ins have voted in a president ial election which is widely expected to return lead to one orlando one on the back to power. Protesters and pakistan all calling for a nationwide strike on monday after another day of escalating demonstrations theyre angry about the wording of a parliamentary bill they said be in order to show restraint although six people were killed on saturday in efforts to break up the protests maryon the hunger ports i am. Recalled to shut down pakistani issued by cleric and Political Party leader who stands in opposition to the government for three weeks protesters have choked the streets of islamabad when there was violence on saturday as police tried to disperse them they sprayed along highways to one of the major cities including a whore and she just. This movement is not political it is the duty of every muslim to protect the owner of islam the protesters maintain this is not political but this is an issue that could undermine pakistans government. It began when pakistans norman is desired hammered introduced a bill before parliament that made no reference to the Prophet Muhammad protest is linked it to the highly contentious issue of blasphemy and while the amendment was withdrawn blamed on a clerical error and hamad apologized the little known group behind the protests argued it remained an affront tells them they want the minister gone. And after the violence on saturday they want the entire cabinet to resign where. People arent coming out of their houses because theyre scared its a strange situation in the backyard of the narcanon this is the fault of the clerics their extremist attitudes they simply dont care about people and the business is being destroyed by the clerics doing this in the name of islam theyre absolutely wrong and people are in pain protest organizers have still managed to spread the call for demonstrators did begin. Encouraged by the Police Failure to get them off the streets kadhim Hussain Rizvi the cleric who leads the teddy eleven like Pakistan Party has called on his followers to bring the entire country to a halt maidana hand to zero. Around fifty thousand people have protested across romania against the governments plan changes to the Justice System demonstrators clogged the streets of the Capital Group or us they say the changes will put romanias Judicial Independence under threat which could lead to high level corruption going on punished the ruling social democrats hope to have the overhaul approved in parliament by the end of the year voters in the poll have been taking part in elections that marked the final stage of a Peace Process that started back in two thousand and six holes of the closed after voting across mountain regions in the north the rest of the country will vote on december the seventh the results will give nepal its first prevention assemblies with the aim of decentralizing power and creating a federal democratic republic so initially reports from man and district. The Early Morning call is no deterrent for these people in the district they have come to exercise their right to vote district and National Officials have been working for days to ensure the election happens. New constitution is being implemented and. Local elections have already taken place this is the first phase of religion for national and its did assembly this election is important because it is about implementing the constitution. The first phase of this election is happening in the hills and mountains where climate and terrain can be challenging the second phase will take place on december seventh in more moderate climate there are nearly six thousand registered voters here and competition is fierce every vote counts and representatives from all sides i can watch. There are candidates representing both the Left Alliance of nepals communist Party Unified marxist leninist and the former maoist and the Democratic Alliance of the Nepali Congress and the right of center parties one candidate will represent this district in the National Assembly and two in the state assembly but for people like groom who runs a hotel here this election is more about Development Done tourism. I really hope that we get a good representative tourism is important for us and we need good roads for people and tourists here we also need schools and hospitals. District is on attracting route and has recently been linked by roads but the journey is precarious polls close at five in the evening local time but by Late Afternoon most people have already cost of a while in milan district Officials Say that more than the expected number of people have cast their ballots nationally the turnout has been no making it difficult to predict the outcome of this election which will turn into a federal republic that he has rushed out of the well and district in a poll. Pope francis is in the air making the flight from rome to the capital young going for a three day official visit it comes just days after the u. S. Joined human Rights Groups around the United Nations and accusing me of carrying out an Ethnic Cleansing Campaign against. Is the first stop of a wait for the leader of the Roman Catholic church and the scots high the reports from young gone by francis faces a major diplomatic challenge. Roman Catholic Leader pope francis has been