My names peter w. Watching al jazeera live from our headquarters here in tow also coming up. Further unrest in peru the police fired tear gas and fight with protesters angry at a decision to pardon the former president. About a Million People forced to move in vietnam ahead of a Violent Storm thats already hit the philippines. These people to move to raise them to meet in a scenario where this from the development of Driverless Cars could drive thousands out of a job. Voting is underway in liberias president ial runoff thats expected to produce the first democratic transition of power in seventy three years fifty one year old george weah has crafted his image as the candidate for change he spent his childhood in monrovia rising to become the first african to be named faeces world player of the year in one thousand nine hundred five in two thousand and three we returned to liberia and became a senator the following year before unsuccessfully running for the presidency in two thousand and five his rival joseph was liberias agriculture minister as far back as one nine hundred eighty three six years before a fourteen year long civil war began the seventy two year old has served as Vice President under Ellen Johnson sirleaf since two thousand and six but sirleaf is not backing him she has endorsed george weah of the doe is live for us in monrovia mohammed whats the turnout looking like so far. Well. Cues in polling stations pits. Anything near what. Happened in all trouble when the foster round was a halt at the polling station where we are in the hot movie of the cup with all the crowd has already seen doubts about the oldest small its the killing in coming in one by one this is because its a fairly easy process compared to whats happened in october because not only while they are twenty come of age and lying for the president ial for the presidency but also there were numerous other candidates vying for different positions including local representatives and members of parliament so. Its a very quick process and liberians say its very crucial and these a lot of. I mean premium being tied to these ronnell other big issues that the electorate dealing with here or is it just about the personalities of the two candidates. While it is about big issues as well as the possibilities when it comes to draw where he has. Much of that himself as the poor. A man who grew up in the swan of the slums of monrovia hes seen as someone people most people in liberia can identify with because of his humble upbringing the Vice President to has been doing exactly that talking about how he grew up often brutal liberia has been a better crop for more than forty years and has the experience he credits him self as being the candidate of transition the man most qualified to play. The woman has deputized for twelve years but again the issues they choose peace who is going to manage continue to manage the peace and the newly found peace in liberia and also their komi which is in shambles after these long period of Political Uncertainty and cut off from them which is a big issue and i just saw a sudden leaves the Administration Thanks very much well stay in africa nigerias military has stopped an attack by suspected boko haram fighters on the outskirts of the northeastern city of mine to go to heavy gunfire was reported in the mulai area as the army fought off the attackers well the number of casualties remains unknown its thought many women and children were injured. Thousands of people in peru have taken to the streets to protest against the pardoning of the former president all of which in mori he was serving a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for murders and disappearances during his time in office in the one nine hundred ninety s. Shelob ellis has more. Chaos in lima these peruvians a furious the former president Alberto Fujimori was pardoned by the current president picture a public christian ski a man they believe was trying to save his political korea days so i thought i was going to be so much of seen all the people mobilizing the police were following us in circling us they got close to us and threw bombs at us. And fujimori was serving a twenty five Year Prison Sentence for murder as kidnappings and disappearances carried out by a government death squads during his time in office he lived from one thousand nine hundred ninety until two thousand critics say his was the most corrupt government in peruvian history. Started on sunday the families of his victims lead the charge i think that theyre trying to see if any im angry because i think its a violation of the memory of her family members its a violation of the fight for the relatives for justice and truth the reason for the process is inside this hospital the frail seventy nine year old fujimori is suffering from low Blood Pressure and hasa arrhythmia you know there is. He recorded this message with his son came Merry Christmas he says. Critics say it was cain g. Who secured the pardon he is a congressman in the majority Popular Force posse thats led by his sister keiko and saved president kuchma and ski from impeachment by abstaining from a vote last week critics say it was in exchange for his fathers pardon the president has defended his decision. Well say samey then its obvious to all of us that the government he inherited at the beginning of the ninetys the country was in a chaotic and violent crisis incurred significant transgressions of the law as far as democracy and human rights are concerned but i also believe his government contributed to National Progress im convinced that those of us who believe in democracy cannot allow Alberto Fujimori to die in prison going to. The cotton was but by a silent majority a survey in may found sixty percent of peruvians wanted fujimori free supporters criticize him with the defeat of the shining path and saving the economy from collapse. The fujimoris critics the death squads still hold them with a hes imprisoned or not they say they will voice their calls for justice bellus al jazeera. Powerful storm that left a trail of death and destruction in the philippines has been downgraded typhoon tembin also defied Weather Forecast and didnt make landfall in vietnams mekong delta where hundreds of thousands of people were told to leave their homes but experts say that heavy rain and strong winds from the weather system could still cause damage across the region the storm killed at least two hundred people in the philippines bright has more now from the island of mindanao in the philippines where relief and aid efforts and i want to weigh. This is the township of too bad its probably one of the worst affected areas of one of the worst affected provinces in mindanao we are down river that was the site of a surge of water that came through here if i can stand back and just give you a quick look at the kind of damage and trail of destruction that it left a torrent of water came down here leaving all of these boulders some of them the size of cars these werent here a couple of days ago taking with it this surge of water more than one hundred houses sadly twenty nine people are confirmed to have died here a number of the bodies are being kept at a makeshift mortuary just a short distance away while the search continues in this area for a further sixteen people who are missing and the search is being conducted some six kilometers downstream it gives you an idea of the strength of the power of the water that came through here all of mindanao like this area are assessing the damage from this storm and looking at ways of being more prepared the next time the philippines as it is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world does take Disaster Preparedness very seriously and invest a lot in infrastructure also in Awareness Training to be ready for the next time but here in mindanao given the security situation it is an added complexity it makes it harder to introduce any of those plans but the philippines has to think in terms of introducing those things given what we are seeing people tell us here about stronger storms and people certainly here believe it is the evidence of Climate Change that these storms are going to be the shape of things to come. The kremlin says it will study whether an Opposition Leaders call to boycott the president ial election in march is legal alexina valmy urged his supporters to snub the vote after he was banned to join the race which will pass criminal conviction the kremlin also says the legitimacy of the election will not be influenced just because one person was declared ineligible to run the latest opinion polls show the president letting a putin is on course to be reelected comfortably which would keep him in office until the year twenty twenty four june is here is demanding an apology from the United Arab Emirates after it banned its female citizens from boarding flights heading to the gulf states the government barred Emirates Airlines flights in response it says the ban was put in place by the u. A. E. After there were claims of illegality going on with people who were trying to board the flights. We are not part of emirates we have are suffering country and they should deal with us according to what normally happens in relations between two countries up to the continues calls with the m. B. Righties through our ambassador in abu dabi it appears they have lifted the ban but they did not give us details on how the ban was lifted plenty more still to come here on aljazeera well meet the family of a six month old baby who was killed during the recent election violence in kenya. And also you have a centuries old way of hand crafting knives in amman remains a symbol of national identity. Welcome back well take a look at the weather across asia this time in northeastern areas weve got this deep area of low pressure which is still dragging some very cold air in from the arctic so for northern parts of japan the risk of snow is high sapporo has got a maximum temperature of minus five for the south for northern parts of honshu theres also going to be some snow around tokyo not faring too badly only eight degrees as a high but it should stay largely dry some shelter off the mountains subzero temperatures off the Korean Peninsula too and then as it moves through towards thirds the system should be swinging through but we still got some snow showers to contend with slightly less cold across the Korean Peninsula beijing coming in at four degrees celsius so further south across the eastern and southern parts of china the weather general looks quite good it has done for some time but across the far south and northern parts of vietnam through laos and towards me and my we have got some pretty heavy rain that tends diet little bit as we head on through into thursday yang on there looking at temperatures of twenty seven degrees heading down southeastern parts of asia weve got a fair scattering of showers here much as youd expect some heavy rain likely for java and bali one or two showers up through the malaysian peninsula but i think its only through the course of thursday should be dry in brighton both singapore and kuala lumpur highs thirty two. Our war on terror begins right now carol but it does not in there no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat than the regime of Saddam Hussein this is a regime that has something to hide they had prepared a significant Propaganda Machine and guess what not one w m d shite was found in iraq since about one nine hundred ninety one iraq a deadly deception at this time on al jazeera. Welcome back youre with aljazeera live from the headlines so far today voting is underway in liberias president ial runoff thats expected to produce the first democratic transition of power there in seventy three days liberias two point two million voters have the choice of a form of footballing stajan or where or the current Vice President joseph. Thousands of people have demonstrated in peru after the former president Alberto Fujimori was pardoned because of poor health he served about half of his twenty five year sentence for human rights abuses and corruption. And a powerful storm that left a trail of death and destruction in the philippines has been downgraded failing to make landfall in vietnam weather experts say the heavy rain and strong winds from Tropical Storm ten binns weather system could still cause damage across the region for. And Israeli Court has extended the detention of a palestinian teenager her mother and cousin they were arrested a week ago after this video was posted online it shows the sixteen year old. Me pushing and hitting an israeli soldier the incident reportedly happened after her relative was shot in the face by Israeli Forces and critically injured as appeared in several other videos challenging israeli soldiers. The american decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel is being discussed around the world the city is holy for people from three religions but at the core of the issue is an occupation that shows no sign of ending last week palestinians got to boost their call for countries to downgrade their and bases and jerusalem was answered by south africas governing party the a n c his tenure page the African National congress is decision was unanimous to immediately and unconditionally downgrade south africas embassy in jerusalem to a mere Liaison Office its an approach and show of support for the palestinians but it is conditional on government adopting the policy there is along that close relationship between South Africans and the palestinians forged during the years of apartheid late president Nelson Mandela was a close friend of late Palestinian LeaderYasser Arafat mandela once described arafat as a fellow Freedom Fighter and this is the South Africans freedom it was an incomplete without the freedom of palestinians other n. T. Apos hate heroes have also never forgotten that deep connection and they still use their position to speak out in solidarity with the palestinian cause we might be better yet. That the people who are in there right now dont forget. And got brutal. Awfully on that close connection to the palestinian cause in fact last night it was the second largest Opposition Political Party the economic Freedom Fighters that protested outside being israeli in the sea in which horror when the one hundredth anniversary of the balfour agreement was marred which helped lead to the creation of israel. This is the Johannesburg Office of b. D. S. A Global Movement calling for the boycott divestment and sanctions on israel they were the people lobbying and see delegates to downgrade south africas embassy in jerusalem were here to talk to a spokesperson quote i can garner about the significance of the move when the a. N. C. Asserts itself as the oldest Liberation Movement on the african continent in a way that also sends a message to other african you know that fricken governments but also other Liberation Movements formally relation with african continent that this is the kind of you know wave and you need to riding this wave as well these posters are for lots of different types of events the ways in which b. D. S. Tries to influence people next to its focus will be on making sure the n. C. S. Party policy is adopted by government and implemented so that becomes a reality for the palestinian people. As twenty seventeen comes to an end looking back at some of the biggest stories of the through the eyes of families in part for speaking to a kenyan family who lost their six month old daughter during the recent Political ViolenceCatherine Sawyer has that story from. Joseph and his wife linda are still trying to come to terms of the killing of the six month old samantha pendle. They say she died from a severe head injury when police raided their home in the town of. This was in august just after the fast president ial election when president was declared the winner. Supporters of Opposition Leader the took to the streets in protest. Police responding with tear gas batons and live ammunition joseph and learned so however say they were attacked in their home at night. Its been an unpredictable and volatile Election Year in kenya the Supreme Court of a time to the oldest paul citing irregularities of fast in africa. Then withdrew from the repeat election saying the Commission First needed reforms. Rerun went ahead anyway in october. One thousand percent of the vote sad of the one thousand million registered voters cast their ballots. All the while political brinkmanship deeply divided the country along partisan lines continue street confrontations between police and protesters only making things worse more than thirty people including baby panda have died in the violence since august and are used to play here and on that night in august her family and neighbors say police came banging o